PickVidsBest Tech company stories & documentaries Videos
The 204 Tech company stories & documentaries videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 13 intermediate, 190 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Computer History Museum, JoshuaG, Apple.
Micro Men - 720p (2009)
Micro Men is a 2009 BBC comic drama about the early 1980s British home computer boom.
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm.
Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small
Ed Catmull of Pixar speaks at Stanford's 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference on running a creative company.
LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on how illumos arose after Oracle closed OpenSolaris.
Secret History of Silicon Valley
Steve Blank's Computer History Museum lecture argues that Silicon Valley's roots lie in WWII radar and electronic warfare work, Stanford's Fred Terman and Cold War military funding rather than the semiconductor alone.
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Jenny Nicholson's roughly four-hour review of her two-night stay on Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser immersive hotel.
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
Steve Blank tells how World War II, Stanford's Frederick Terman and military and intelligence agencies shaped the rise of Silicon Valley.
Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence
Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla.
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
A feature-length Defunctland documentary on the history of Disney's FastPass and FastPass+ expedited queue systems.
Complete Apple WWDC | Steve Jobs talk and answer developers questions | 1997
The full 1997 WWDC session in which Steve Jobs, newly back at Apple, takes developer questions for about an hour.
iPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins
The full 80-minute Macworld 2007 keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone.
Facebook Fraud
Veritasium argues that Facebook's ad revenue relies partly on fake likes, after paying to promote his page and gaining tens of thousands of followers in developing countries who never engaged.
Steve Jobs Insult Response
A clip from Steve Jobs's 1997 WWDC session, in which he answers a hostile question from an audience member about Apple killing OpenDoc.
Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned
Jeff Dean of Google describes his experiences building Google's systems and how its infrastructure evolved over time.
FailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study
Travis Kalanick's talk at FailCon 2011 about his earlier failed startups, given as a case study before Uber's rise.
Think Different
Apple's classic 'Think Different' commercial, a one-minute spot celebrating creative misfits and innovators.
Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal
Footage from the Macworld Boston 1997 keynote where Steve Jobs announces Apple's deal with Microsoft, with Bill Gates appearing on the big screen.
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
Valve's two-hour documentary for Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, with team members discussing development, nearly running out of money, being hacked, the publisher lawsuit and the birth of Steam.
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
The Google I/O 2009 keynote introducing Google Wave, a real-time collaborative communication and document platform.
AT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
The 1969 pitch film in which Saul Bass presents the Bell System logo redesign to AT&T, part of the largest corporate re-identity program in U.S.
The Company that Broke Canada
BobbyBroccoli documentary on the rise of Nortel Networks, once the dominant Canadian telecom giant, during the dot-com era.
Wired Interviews Bill Gates 1996
Unreleased 1996 footage of the Wired editors interviewing Bill Gates when he visited their office.
Apple's Independent Repair Program is a useless PR stunt.
Louis Rossmann argues that Apple's Independent Repair Program is a PR stunt that misleads the public and burdens independent repair shops.
Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations
Gabe Newell of Valve speaks at UT Austin's LBJ School on productivity, economics, political institutions and the future of corporations.