Ripped from the pages of Adam Fisher's uncensored history of Silicon Valley, Valley of Genius features the hackers, founders, and freaks who made Silicon Valley boom, in their own words. Drawn from over 200 interviews with the brightest stars and hidden heroes of technology, Valley of Genius is required listening for history buffs, tech lovers, and anyone interested in the innovation, betrayal, and magic of Silicon Valley.
Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
Howard Warshaw is infamous for creating the "worst video game ever," ET the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. He tells tales of the final days of Atari.
Fabrice Florin produced a documentary of the first ever Hackers Conference, and was influential in the development of Hypercard. He tells his story here.
Jaron Lanier is a virtual reality pioneer and the inventor of the EYE Phone, the first commercially available head-mounted display. He talks about the early days of VR.
Aaron Sittig was the first designer at Facebook, and the man who created the "Like" button. He talks about writing the first Mac client for Napster and the earliest days of Facebook.
Before Mark Pincus made it big with Zynga, he made it even bigger by investing in a couple of little companies called Napster and Facebook. He talks about those early days, and what Mark Zuckerberg was really like back then.
Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe are the founders of Wired Magazine and Wired.com. They talk about starting Wired, the early days of the Web, and inventing the banner ad.
Biz Stone is the co-founder of Twitter. He talks about his days at Google and Odeo, the predecessor of Twitter. He also tells his version of how Twitter was born.