I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.
There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google. Not just my family members.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.'
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.