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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
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
People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.
Reid Hoffman
Truth
People
Problem
Startup
Valley
Focused
Out
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Some
About
Network
Risk-Taking
Take
Environment
Idea
Longer
Supportive
Makes
Still
Go
Goal
Very
Story
Capital
Shot
Special
Bold
Founders
I really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I think it's awesome the show does that.
Reid Hoffman
Good
Yourself
Seriously
Awesome
Think
Too
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Take
Like
Does
Little
Really
Show
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.
Robert Kyncl
Great
People
Writing
Giving
Programs
Tools
Valley
Bits
Out
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Abundance
Abundant
Builds
Lot
Information
Process
Then
Use
Useful
Bridges
Floating
The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Ron Conway
Facebook
Innovation
Better
Google
Twitter
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Angels
More
Next
Funding
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.'
Ron Gutman
Good
People
Everyone
Valley
Fabulous
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Well
Knows
Doing
While
Full
Who
Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out.
Ross Levinsohn
Work
Good
Amazing
Google
Big
Think
Market
Valley
Way
Out
Has-Been
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Small
Good Way
Been
Often
Work Out
Acquisitions
Really
Engineers
Companies
Buying
Competitive
Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Board, I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.
Ruth Porat
Time
Daily
Experience
People
Opportunity
Valley
Member
Silicon
Silicon Valley
My Time
Morgan
Had
Firsthand
How
Up
Board
Help
Help People
Companies
Stanford
Stanley
Growing
Growing Up
Tech
Tech Companies
Lives
Daily Lives
Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.
Ryan Holmes
Game
Ride
World
Increasingly
Approach
Valley
Locally
Embrace
Phrase
Able
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Only
Recruit
Prospects
New
Talent
Along
Town
Identify
Around
Different
Decentralized
Different Approach
Centers
Them
Younger
Companies
Homegrown
Tech
Bring
Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
Sam Altman
People
Valley
Status
Seed
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Winning
Investing
Investment
Most
Want
Symbol
For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.
Sarah Lacy
Giving
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Remarkably
Dollars
Stingy
Created
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Here
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