PickVidsBest Tech industry & business models Videos
The 114 Tech industry & business models videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 7 intermediate, 106 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, Louis Rossmann, Tom Scott.
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.
Tom Scott's long explainer on YouTube's copyright system, Content ID and the DMCA.
Winners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | Talks at Google
Anand Giridharadas presents his book Winners Take All at Google, arguing that the global elite's philanthropy and 'win-win' framing preserve the systems that create inequity.
The Problem With Facebook
Veritasium's Derek Muller argues that Facebook's business model works against pages and creators, because it charges them to reach the audiences they built.
VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
Folding Ideas uses the rise and fall of the YouTube competitor VidMe to examine why platforms are not friends to creators.
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of US local TV stations, and how it injects political content and scripted must-run segments into local news.
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Dan Olson's roughly two-hour video essay critiques NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, covering their technical, economic, and ideological flaws.
Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's 13-minute Last Week Tonight segment explains the 2014 net neutrality fight over cable companies creating unequal internet speeds.
All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
Bill Gurley's talk at the All-In Summit 2023, titled 2,851 Miles after the distance between Washington and San Francisco.
Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Peter Thiel's lecture from the How to Start a Startup course on business strategy and monopoly theory, arguing that competition destroys profits and that startups should aim to build monopolies.
Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
A three-hour-plus Joe Rogan podcast with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, policy lead Vijaya Gadde and journalist Tim Pool.
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos.
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
People Make Games investigates how Roblox relies on young, often child, developers to build its content while paying them very little.
re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon
Aral Balkan's re:publica 2015 talk argues that people are the product of surveillance-based business models.
This is why we can't have nice things
Veritasium explores planned obsolescence, from the Phoebus lightbulb cartel to printers and phones.
How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
A conference presentation by Bert Hubert on how companies lose their technological edge and become outsourcing hubs.
Why SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering explains why SpaceX is building Starlink, including the economics of satellite internet.
The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation
A long Gamers Nexus investigation into how volatile US tariffs affect the computer hardware industry.
Epic v Apple: Judgment Day - Who Won? Who Lost? ...and Why? (VL538)
Hoeg Law's Virtual Legality walks through the 185-page Epic v.
Maciej Ceglowski - Barely succeed! It's easier!
Maciej Ceglowski's talk at Web Directions argues that small teams and lone programmers can build sustainable businesses without chasing Silicon Valley's grow-or-die model.
1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
In this 2019 GDC talk, Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott explain how they flooded the app stores with over 1,500 auto-generated slot machine games to find the lowest bar for success.
How Airlines Quietly Became Banks
A Wendover Productions explainer arguing that major airlines make much of their profit from loyalty programs and co-branded credit cards rather than flying.
Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
CNBC gets a tour of ASML's cleanrooms in the Netherlands to see how its roughly $200 million EUV lithography machines are built.
Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show
FTC Chair Lina Khan sits down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to discuss the agency's work protecting consumers from unfair business practices.
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow's DEF CON 31 talk describes how platforms decay in a pattern he calls enshittification.