PickVidsBest Tech pioneers & interviews Videos
The 369 Tech pioneers & interviews videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 91 intermediate, 272 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an interview. What they share is that the guest explains a past choice instead of reciting a glossary. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Computer History Museum, PowerfulJRE.
Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243
Lex Fridman interviews Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom about building the product, its early days and its pivot story.
Joe Rogan Experience #1309 - Naval Ravikant
Joe Rogan interviews entrepreneur and angel investor Naval Ravikant on happiness, work, technology platforms, AI and society.
Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman interviews Douglas Lenat, founder of Cyc, a decades-long project to encode common-sense knowledge and reasoning for AI.
Elon Musk Mahalo Mentor Interview
A roughly 40-minute Mahalo mentor interview with Elon Musk, covering his background from Zip2 and PayPal to SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity, along with advice for entrepreneurs.
Quantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor
Peter Shor tells the story of how he discovered Shor's Algorithm, from his early mathematics days to the quantum factoring breakthrough.
SpaceX Seattle 2015
Full recording of Elon Musk's January 2015 presentation and Q&A at the SpaceX Seattle office announcement.
SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
A TED conversation with SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell about the company's race to put people in orbit and the BFR rocket.
Ryan Dahl: Node JS
Ryan Dahl's JSConf EU talk introducing Node.js to the world.
Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Alan Kay's TED talk on teaching ideas, in which he argues the world is not what it seems and shows children learning through programming and building their own lessons with Etoys/Squeak.
Macworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs
Recording of Steve Jobs's 1997 Macworld Boston keynote, in which he reviews Apple's status and announces the partnership with Microsoft, including a $150 million investment and a five-year Office commitment.
CHM Live | Original iPhone Software Team Leader Scott Forstall (Part Two)
Second half of a 2017 Computer History Museum live event in which former Apple software chief Scott Forstall is interviewed by John Markoff about creating the original iPhone.
Peter Norvig at Startup School 08
Peter Norvig, then Director of Research at Google, talks at Startup School 2008 about leveraging large amounts of data and about technical challenges in Google projects such as image search.
Commodore 64—25th Anniversary Celebration
The Computer History Museum's 25th anniversary celebration of the Commodore 64, recorded in December 2007, with a panel including Jack Tramiel and Steve Wozniak.
E3 2012: John Carmack Interview
Giant Bomb interviews John Carmack at E3 2012 about his virtual reality head-mounted display prototype.
Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)
A long recorded seminar in which Alan Kay discusses object-oriented programming, probably from the mid-1980s.
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 2 // Summer 2021]
Everyday Astronaut takes a tour of SpaceX's Starbase with Elon Musk as guide.
Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"
Seventeen-year-old Ray Kurzweil appears on the TV show I've Got a Secret in 1965, playing a piece of music composed by a computer program he built.
The Man behind Stable Diffusion
Yannic Kilcher interviews Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, about the company's funding, its mission, and the release of Stable Diffusion.
We Play Doom With John Romero
IGN plays through the first episode of the original Doom with its creator John Romero providing commentary.
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)
Mike Wallace interviews Aldous Huxley in 1958 about the warnings in Brave New World, including mass persuasion, overpopulation and voluntary totalitarianism.
A conversation with Elon Musk about Starship
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut talks with Elon Musk right after Musk's 2019 Starship presentation.
Oral History of Chuck Peddle
A Computer History Museum oral history of Chuck Peddle, the engineer behind the 6502 and the Commodore PET, covering his career from GE through Motorola and MOS Technology.
Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447
A Lex Fridman podcast conversation with the four creators of Cursor, the AI-assisted code editor.
A Conversation with Stewart Brand (Devcon4)
A panel conversation with Stewart Brand at Ethereum's Devcon4, where he recounts his life and work 'hacking civilization' and discusses the role of institutions in decentralization.