Season 1
13 episodes · 2005
1Andy Hertzfeld - The first Macintosh programmer...ever
Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about Mac History and how he fell in love with Open Source software.
2Max Levchin - Co-founder of PayPal
Max Levchin, best known for co-founding PayPal, explains why he is starting his 5th through 7th companies and the virtues of staying up all night.
3Bill Joy - Sun Microsystems Co-founder
Bill Joy -- the father of Berkeley UNIX -- explains why he was fired from the International House of Pancakes.
4Brewster Kahle - Internet Archive Founder
Although Brewster Kahle started and sold companies for big bucks, his true love is capturing the whole Internet at the Internet Archive, which he founded and runs today.
5Tim O'Reilly - Open Source Pioneer
Open Source pioneer Tim O'Reilly noticed the free software didn't come with free printed manuals and so a publishing empire was born.
6Dave Winer - Father of RSS and Web Logging
Dave Winer has been in the software industry since the days he worked with Mitch Kapor BEFORE Lotus 1-2-3.
7Dan Drake - Autodesk Co-founder
Dan Drake and a roomful of friends put together $59,030 and started Autodesk with a bunch of bad ideas and one that panned-out -- AutoCAD. Sometimes one is enough.
8Avram Miller - Co-founder Intel Capital
Avram Miller went from playing jazz piano to building DEC's first PC to starting Intel's venture fund.
9Anina - High Fashion Meets High Tech
Anina represents the new European tradition in mobile Internet development. And you'd never guess her day job.
10Dan Bricklin - Inventor of the Spreadsheet
Dan Bricklin invented the spreadsheet -- personal computing's first killer app -- built and lost the first PC software empire and somehow remains a nice guy filled with ideas.
11Doug Engelbart - Inventor of the Computer Mouse
Doug Engelbart invented computer networks, time sharing, graphical user interfaces, and the mouse--all while driving to work one day in 1951. Really.
12Bob Kahn - Inventer of TCP/IP
Most nerds know Bob Kahn co-wrote TCP/IP; earlier he worked at Bolt Beranek & Newman where he was the primary architect for the Arpanet.
13Judy Estrin - Founder, Bridge Communicationsfinale
Judy Estrin's career ranges from founder of Bridge Communications to CTO of Cisco to running Packet Design LLC. Quite the girl geek, eh?