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.
Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
Susan Crawford talks at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center about her book Captive Audience.
The Boring Company Information Session
A long information session where The Boring Company presents its vision for Loop, an underground high-speed transit system, and the traffic problems it aims to solve.
The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization
Wendover Productions explains how UK rail privatization worked and why it failed.
Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail
Benn Jordan argues that Spotify's business model undermines the music it sells, using streaming payout figures and the economics for artists and labels.
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.
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
A political commentary video arguing that tech billionaires such as Thiel, Musk and Andreessen, along with figures like Yarvin, are using the new administration to push their agenda.
Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
An episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj exposing how tax-prep companies like TurboTax make filing confusing and costly even though many Americans can file for free.
Disruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)
Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation using the steel industry, showing how mini-mills beat incumbents from the low end.
SpaceX: The Biggest Money Loser in IPO History
Patrick Boyle analyzes SpaceX's IPO prospectus, covering its financials, speculative products, AI business, related-party dealings, compensation, and a governance structure with minimal shareholder rights.
Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
A 2012 Fortune dinner debate between Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt over whether technological progress is healthy or stalling and whether Google can still innovate.
The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble
RethinkX summarizes its report arguing that mainstream LCOE estimates are inflating a bubble in coal, gas, nuclear and hydro assets.
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership
A roughly 3.5-hour Gamers Nexus investigation into rising PC component prices, driven largely by AI data-center demand for memory and other hardware.
Thiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate
A short CNN clip of Peter Thiel telling Google chairman Eric Schmidt that Google has huge cash reserves and does not know how to invest them.
DEBUNKING STARLINK
A 43-minute skeptical critique arguing that Starlink fails to live up to its promises, covering satellite lifespan, costs, bandwidth and viability.
SpaceX IPO Scandal
Patrick Boyle examines SpaceX's planned IPO at a roughly $1.75 trillion valuation.
Amazon Sells Fake Electrical Fuses
Louis Rossmann examines fuses sold on Amazon that fail to trip at their rated current, including a 2A fuse surviving 8 amps.
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.
Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
Marques Brownlee explains why iMessage's blue and green bubbles matter, covering the technical, commercial and social side of Apple's messaging lock-in.
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
Part one of Technology Connections' account of the VHS versus Betamax format war.
The $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid
A five-minute TED talk by Rob Reid, who introduces Copyright Math, applying entertainment-industry piracy loss claims to produce absurd totals such as an $8 billion iPod.
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
A cappella parody song by The Richter Scales, set to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire', lampooning the Web 2.0 startup bubble.
Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns
Bryan Cantrill's talk on corporate open source anti-patterns, first given at FISL 2012 and again at the Liferay Symposium.
Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Boeing, tracing how it went from a quality engineering company to one tied to crashes and 'quality escapes'.
Games Should Not Cost $60 Anymore - Inflation, Microtransactions, and Publishing - Extra Credits
Extra Credits explains from a game developer's perspective why AAA games have stayed at $60 despite inflation, and how that pressure drives DLC, microtransactions and loot boxes.