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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
Marc Andreessen
Business
Late
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Point
Part
Most
Qualified
Were
Graduating
Where
Wanted
Companies
Actually
Start
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
Marc Andreessen
Software
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Cases
More
Over
New
Industries
Doing
Years
Expect
Than
Next
Companies
Many
Disrupted
Disruption
Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007.
Mark Frauenfelder
Evil
Valley
Mad
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Since
Robotics
Scientist
Produced
Company
Electronics
Specialized
Designed
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
Mark Zuckerberg
People
Valuable
Joke
Building
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Something
Stuff
Like
Without
Always
Making
Lot
Friends
Just
Want
Who
Companies
Cool
Start
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.
Marvin Ammori
Innovation
Genius
Phone
Will
Alexander
Back
Valley
Jobs
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Inventive
Put
Steve
Steve Jobs
Another
Least
iPhone
Forever
Graham
Roots
Who
Bell
Associated
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
Masayoshi Son
Best
World
Software
Valley
Indian
Indians
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Engineers
Even
The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.
Masayoshi Son
Best
World
Energy
Enough
Valley
Indians
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Talented
Because
Around
Very
Chinese
Japan
Them
Engineers
I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.
Maynard Webb
Today
Best
You
Man
Risks
Resume
Remember
Honor
Worried
Valley
Saw
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Case
Someone
Ten
Scenario
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Individual
Take
Had
Badge
Remember When
Loser
Years
Years Ago
Brand
May
Afraid
Being
Capability
Company
Multiple
Now
The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.
Michael Arrington
Women
Problem
Become
Down
Enough
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs
True
Female
Doing
Opposite
Encourage
Want
Keeping
Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.
Michael Arrington
Government
Understanding
Consequences
Too
Our
Valley
Way
Rules
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Around
Just
Interested
Little
Creating
Enforcing
Based
I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.
Michael Birch
You
Valley
Say
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Almost
Always
Traditional
Been
Very
May
Which
CEO
Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.
Michael Seibel
Minority
Looking
Startups
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
General
Outside
Feel
Like
Often
Tech
Founders
When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world.
Mike Krieger
World
Opportunities
Advice
Startup
Valley
States
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Inspired
Had
Attend
Instantly
Leaders
New
Beyond
Around
Came
New Opportunities
Improve
Stories
Create
Who
Stanford
United
Lives
United States
University
'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.
Mitch Kapor
Down
Valley
Bay
Peninsula
Bay Area
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Area
Come
Just
Mean
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.
Mitchell Baker
Technology
Space
Valley
Enterprise
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Foot
Partly
Social
Mozilla
Product
Silicon Valley is super competitive and super expensive for talent, for office space, for everything.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Space
Everything
Valley
Super
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Talent
Office
Expensive
Competitive
Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?
Nicolas Berggruen
You
Facebook
Google
Down
Think
Twitter
Everything
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
New
Does
Go
Amazon
Intel
York
Microsoft
New York
Produce
Then
Starbucks
Apple
Seattle
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.
Niklas Zennstrom
Best
Valley
Ways
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Place
Many
Company
Tech
Start
Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.
Om Malik
Competition
Winner
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Toward
Heads
Most
Being
Now
Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
Om Malik
Stress
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Feel
Most
Self-Inflicted
Here
Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.
Patrick Collison
Great
Technology
People
World
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Tend
Instead
Smartest
Around
Does
Move
Breed
There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their own success.
Patrick Collison
Success
Own
Valley
Bit
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Terms
Issue
Getting
Themselves
Really
Companies
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.
Paul Davies
Life
Alone
Logical
Will
Chemistry
Way
Way Life
Complex
Silicon
Structure
More
Computer
Mere
Study
Execute
Involves
How
Than
Any
Information
Explain
Plastic
Origin
Therefore
Differs
Copper
Fundamentally
Program
Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.
Peter Barris
You
Innovation
Valley
Positives
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Mentality
Disadvantages
Outside
Also
Obviously
Subject
Goes
Being
Working
Based
In the future, 'the networked' will sometimes form alliances with the Silicon Valley companies against Congress, but sometimes we are going to want and need to target our campaigns for change at the companies themselves.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Future
Change
Sometimes
Will
Congress
Our
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Alliance
Campaigns
Target
Going
Want
Form
Against
Themselves
Companies
Need
The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.
Reid Hoffman
World
Better
Valleys
Silicon
More
Better Off
Off
Companies
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