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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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