01 | Apple
Apple 1/3 — Two Friends, a Garage, and a Dream
What happens when two kids who love building things meet — and decide to change the world from a tiny garage?
Apple 2/3 — Silicon Valley's Greatest Comeback
What do you do when the company you built kicks you out? If you're Steve Jobs, you come back and make it better than ever.
Apple 3/3 — Putting the Whole World in Your Pocket
What if your phone, your music player, your camera, your map, and your game console were all the same thing?
02 | Amazon
Amazon 1/3 — A Bookstore in a Garage
"I want to build something that will last a thousand years." — A 30-year-old named Jeff Bezos, before he quit his job to sell books on the internet
Amazon 2/3 — The Everything Store
"We are not really an internet company. We are a customer company that uses the internet." — Jeff Bezos
Amazon 3/3 — The Cloud That Changed the World
"The best business to be in is a business where you can help customers more and more over time." — Jeff Bezos, looking back on accidental discoveries
03 | Google
Google 1/3 — Two Students and a Really Big Idea
What if the entire internet was a giant messy room — and two college students figured out how to organize it?
Google 2/3 — Reinventing Email, Maps, Video, and Phones
Google started by helping you find things. Then it started building things nobody had even dreamed of yet.
Google 3/3 — From Beating a World Champion to Cars That Drive Themselves
Google organized all the world's information. But what if computers could do more than find answers — what if they could actually understand them?
04 | Microsoft
Microsoft 1/3 — Two Teenagers and a Bold Promise That Changed the World
What if two teenagers promised they could build something nobody had ever built — and then stayed up for weeks to make it real?
Microsoft 2/3 — When People Camped Outside Stores to Buy a Computer Program
What if using a computer was as easy as pointing at what you want and clicking? One idea turned Microsoft from successful into unstoppable.
Microsoft 3/3 — The Most Unexpected Comeback in Tech
What happens when the world's biggest software company falls behind — and then reinvents itself in ways nobody saw coming?
05 | Facebook
Facebook 1/3 — The Night a Website Brought an Entire School Together
What if one college student built a website in his dorm room — and it connected the entire world?
Facebook 2/3 — Connecting Two Billion People
Facebook connected your college friends. Then it connected the whole world — and changed how we share, shop, and even think.
Facebook 3/3 — Stepping Into the Future
What if you could step inside the internet — walk around in it, meet your friends there, and build anything you can imagine?
06 | OpenAI
OpenAI 1/3 — A Dream to Keep AI Safe for Everyone
What if computers could think — but nobody made sure they thought about helping people?
OpenAI 2/3 — When Everyone Started Talking to AI
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a chatbot that anyone could talk to. Five days later, one million people were using it. The world would never be the same.
OpenAI 3/3 — The Race to Build AI That Can Do Everything
From a chatbot that types to an AI that can see, hear, and talk — OpenAI is building the future, one invention at a time. And the biggest question isn't what AI can do. It's what YOU will do with it.
07 | Tesla
Tesla 1/3 — An Electric Car Nobody Believed In
Everyone said electric cars were slow and boring — until two engineers and one big dreamer decided to build the most exciting car in the world.
Tesla 2/3 — A Car for Everyone
Building a car as fast as a sports car, as cool as a spaceship, and cheap enough for ordinary families — that was Tesla's next dream.
Tesla 3/3 — More Than Just Cars
Elon Musk once said: "Tesla isn't really a car company — it's an energy company trying to solve climate change." So what does that actually mean?
08 | SpaceX
SpaceX 1/3 — A Crazy Dream About Mars
If one day humans could live on Mars — how would we get there? That "too crazy to be real" question gave birth to a new kind of company.
SpaceX 2/3 — Learning from Explosions
Three failures, three explosions. The fourth time — everything about space history changed.
SpaceX 3/3 — To the Stars and Beyond
A spaceship taller than the Statue of Liberty is getting ready to carry humans to Mars. This isn't science fiction — this is what SpaceX is building right now.
09 | Netflix
Netflix 1/2 — The $40 Late Fee That Changed How We Watch Movies
"There's got to be a better way." — Reed Hastings, after receiving a forty-dollar late fee on a DVD rental
Netflix 2/2 — Watching the Whole World's Stories from Your Couch
The internet got faster. Red DVD envelopes weren't the only choice anymore. In 2007, Netflix made a bold decision: movies would stream directly to your home.
10 | Spotify
Spotify 1/2 — A Swedish Teenager's Big Music Dream
Before Spotify, getting a song wasn't easy. A teenager in Sweden decided to turn all the music in the world into a library that fits in your pocket.
Spotify 2/2 — A Playlist Just for You
Spotify has over 100 million songs. How do you ever find the one song that's perfect for you? Spotify came up with a clever answer.
01 | University
Stanford — The School Where Wild Ideas Come True
Why do so many of the world's most famous companies come from the same university?
Harvard — Where Presidents, Inventors, and Dreamers All Began
Founded in 1636, Harvard has shaped presidents, leaders, and thinkers for nearly 400 years.
MIT — The School Where Someone Put a Police Car on the Roof
Why did students spend months secretly moving a police car onto the roof? Welcome to MIT, where the most hands-on students in the world come to learn.