Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.
What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.
Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.