I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
I grew up in the suburbs.
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.
I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
I grew up in D.C.
I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.
I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.