Valley of Genius (Audio)

Valley of Genius: Larry Brilliant examines the doctor’s work eradicating smallpox and his encounters with Steve Jobs in India and Silicon Valley.

Howard Warshaw tells Adam Fisher how he left Hewlett-Packard for Atari in 1981, accepting a 20% pay cut from $25,000 to $22,000.

Valley of Genius host Adam Fisher interviews Fabrice Florin about the first Hackers Conference, organized by Whole Earth Catalog editors Stuart Brand and Kevin Kelly near Sausalito.

Charlie Ayers describes becoming Google's early chef after a 25-chef trial and starting on November 17, 1999.

Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey built Twitter from a two-week hackathon around SMS status updates.

An interview with Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith about his role in the early days of computer graphics and Silicon Valley.

An interview with author Adam Fisher about Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of the first arcade video game and founder of Atari, drawn from oral histories of Silicon Valley.

This episode explores the life and influence of Stuart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, and his role in the early Silicon Valley counterculture.