It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.
Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
I've been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry's evolution. It's enabled the constant creative destruction that keeps Silicon Valley relevant and thriving in a rapidly changing world.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
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