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.
Macworld NY 1999-Noah Wyle imitating Steve Jobs
A short clip from Macworld 1999 in which actor Noah Wyle, who played Steve Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley, appears on stage as Jobs at the start of the keynote.
Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC
A 2019 extended interview in which Connie Loizos talks with Sam Altman about his work, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, its mission toward safe artificial general intelligence, and criticisms the organization faces.
Steve Jobs says, "Microsoft has no taste."
A short clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste, from an interview about Windows.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: The VICE News Tonight Interview (HBO)
A 2018 VICE News Tonight interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, in which he discusses privacy as a core company value, the Facebook breach, and Apple's iCloud arrangement in China.
Steve Jobs - Apple Product Matrix Strategy 1997
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs describing how he cut Apple's product line down to a four-quadrant matrix of consumer and pro, desktop and portable, during the 1997 turnaround.
George R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor | CONAN on TBS
A short Conan segment in which George R.
Steve Jobs Quoting Alan Kay
A short excerpt from the 2007 iPhone launch where Steve Jobs quotes Alan Kay: people serious about software should make their own hardware.
Charlie Rose Eric Schmidt
A short Charlie Rose interview clip of Eric Schmidt discussing Google's direction for search.
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
Dwarkesh Patel interviews OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever on time to AGI, what comes after generative models, data limits, alignment, and competing with Google.
Steve Jobs on the Post PC era
A short clip of Steve Jobs at the D8 conference discussing the post-PC era, including his analogy of PCs as trucks that will remain for a minority of users.
Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup
A two-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, conducted by Paul McJones in 2015.
Q&A with Guido van Rossum, Inventor of Python
An open Q&A with Python creator Guido van Rossum hosted by Microsoft Reactor, covering his career, PyCon's origins and his opinions on other languages.
Billionaire Bill Gates Guesses Grocery Store Prices
On The Ellen Show, Bill Gates plays a game guessing the prices of grocery items.
Gerald Jay Sussman: The Role of Programming (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
Gerald Jay Sussman speaks at Dan Friedman's 60th birthday celebration about how programming helps formulate and clarify ideas.
Steve Jobs - Apple Is Software
A one-minute clip from the All Things D conference in which Steve Jobs says Apple is fundamentally a software company, with iPod, Mac and iPhone all being software.
An Earthshaking Announcement
Donald Knuth gives a talk at Stanford, recorded by Zeeba TV for the TeX Users Group, titled An Earthshaking Announcement.
Young Elon Musk featured in documentary about millionaires (1999)
A short 1999 documentary clip about millionaires featuring a young Elon Musk, including footage of him taking delivery of an expensive car.
StrictlyVC in conversation with Sam Altman, part two (OpenAI)
Part two of a StrictlyVC interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, focused on AI.
I Think I Know Who Satoshi Is
A 13-minute video in which Ted Nelson lays out his theory about who created Bitcoin, proposing that Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym for mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.
Ballmer Laughs at iPhone
A two-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the $500 price of the newly announced iPhone and dismissing its lack of a keyboard.
Jack Ma and Elon Musk hold debate in Shanghai
Alibaba's Jack Ma and Tesla's Elon Musk debate artificial intelligence on stage in Shanghai in 2019.
Anthony Levandowski on lessons learned at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI
A TechCrunch interview with Anthony Levandowski about his new startup Pronto.ai and autonomous vehicles, after the Uber and Waymo lawsuit.
Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (1995) | Letterman
A 1995 Letterman appearance in which Bill Gates explains the origins of Microsoft and tries to convince Dave to get a computer and get online.
Apple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed
Steve Jobs's WWDC 2005 keynote segment announcing Apple's move from PowerPC to Intel processors, and revealing that Mac OS X had been secretly built for Intel all along.