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Season 1

13 episodes · 2005

  1. 1Andy Hertzfeld - The first Macintosh programmer...ever

    06 Sep 2005

    Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about Mac History and how he fell in love with Open Source software.

  2. 2Max Levchin - Co-founder of PayPal

    13 Sep 2005

    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.

  3. 3Bill Joy - Sun Microsystems Co-founder

    20 Sep 2005

    Bill Joy -- the father of Berkeley UNIX -- explains why he was fired from the International House of Pancakes.

  4. 4Brewster Kahle - Internet Archive Founder

    27 Sep 2005

    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.

  5. 5Tim O'Reilly - Open Source Pioneer

    04 Oct 2005

    Open Source pioneer Tim O'Reilly noticed the free software didn't come with free printed manuals and so a publishing empire was born.

  6. 6Dave Winer - Father of RSS and Web Logging

    11 Oct 2005

    Dave Winer has been in the software industry since the days he worked with Mitch Kapor BEFORE Lotus 1-2-3.

  7. 7Dan Drake - Autodesk Co-founder

    19 Oct 2005

    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.

  8. 8Avram Miller - Co-founder Intel Capital

    28 Oct 2005

    Avram Miller went from playing jazz piano to building DEC's first PC to starting Intel's venture fund.

  9. 9Anina - High Fashion Meets High Tech

    09 Nov 2005

    Anina represents the new European tradition in mobile Internet development. And you'd never guess her day job.

  10. 10Dan Bricklin - Inventor of the Spreadsheet

    25 Nov 2005

    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.

  11. 11Doug Engelbart - Inventor of the Computer Mouse

    09 Dec 2005

    Doug Engelbart invented computer networks, time sharing, graphical user interfaces, and the mouse--all while driving to work one day in 1951. Really.

  12. 12Bob Kahn - Inventer of TCP/IP

    30 Jan 2006

    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.

  13. 13Judy Estrin - Founder, Bridge Communicationsfinale

    10 Apr 2006

    Judy Estrin's career ranges from founder of Bridge Communications to CTO of Cisco to running Packet Design LLC. Quite the girl geek, eh?