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.
Tesla Autonomy Day
Tesla's roughly four-hour Autonomy Day investor event covers its in-house self-driving chip, vision-only approach, fleet data engine and robotaxi plans, with talks by Andrej Karpathy and others.
The Story of Tetris
Gaming Historian recounts how Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris in the Soviet Union and how a fight over publishing rights spanned the West, Mirrorsoft, Nintendo and the Cold War.
Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer
Dave Plummer, a retired Microsoft engineer who wrote Task Manager, responds to the claim that Windows sucks.
Intel - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology.
AdoredTV's history of Intel's monopolistic behavior over three decades, covering its dealings with AMD and its anti-consumer practices.
What's It Really like Working at Valve?
People Make Games interviewed 16 current and former Valve employees to examine how the company's no-bosses, no-titles structure works in practice, and where it falls short.
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
A Computer History Museum oral history panel with four 3dfx founders on the company's rise with Voodoo Graphics and Glide, and its fall into bankruptcy.
How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV
Pixar staff tell the story of how Toy Story 2 was almost deleted from the studio's computers and was saved by a home computer backup.
The new Windows Terminal
Microsoft's short announcement video for the new Windows Terminal, a modern terminal app for Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL.
Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs at Apple's 1997 WWDC, shortly after his return, taking developer questions and describing Apple's direction.
The real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice
Vox explainer arguing the two Boeing 737 Max crashes were not just a software bug but the result of a company's drive to beat its rival, with a flawed MCAS design.
Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007
An excerpt from Steve Jobs's January 2007 Macworld keynote in which he introduces the original iPhone.
This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!
Corridor Crew tracks down Disney's lost sodium vapor prism process, used for Mary Poppins-era transparency mattes.
Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet
A short concept video of Microsoft's unreleased Courier, a dual-screen tablet designed as a digital notebook with clippings and annotation.
Epic 2014
Epic 2014 is a short science-fiction film that imagines the media landscape merging into a personalized, computer-generated news service.
Riot On Documentary (2002)
A documentary about Riot Entertainment, a Finnish dot-com-era startup that raised millions in funding and then collapsed.
GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
The official trailer for the documentary General Magic, about the secretive Apple spinoff that tried to build a handheld communicator in 1990 and whose ideas shaped the smartphone era.
Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)
The full January 2007 Macworld keynote where Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
A short 2009 video of Jeff Bezos talking about Amazon and Zappos.
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.
GraphQL: The Documentary
A documentary on how GraphQL came to be at Facebook, featuring its co-creators Lee Byron, Dan Schafer and Nick Schrock.
Billion Dollar Bully: Yelp documentary producers Kaylie Milliken & Mellissa Wood
Louis Rossmann interviews Kaylie Milliken and Mellissa Wood, producers of the documentary Billion Dollar Bully, about Yelp's alleged practices toward businesses.
The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)
A 1987 episode of The Computer Chronicles on Apple's HyperCard, showing users building their own applications.
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.