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I've been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry's evolution. It's enabled the constant creative destruction that keeps Silicon Valley relevant and thriving in a rapidly changing world.
Sarah Lacy
History
Creative
World
Destruction
Reading
Unions
Changing
Valley
Relevant
Evolution
Has-Been
Rapidly
Constant
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Struck
Thriving
Industry
How
Been
Lot
American
Lack
Just
Tech
Keeps
Recently
Core
The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?
Sarah Lacy
Women
Made
Minority
Valley
Immigrants
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Any
Different
Experienced
Stories
Anyway
Roots
Should
Full
Who
Groups
Why
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
Satya Nadella
Business
Will
Build
Every
Society
Software
Valley
Sector
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Risk
Computer
Driven
Does
How
Scientists
Lots
Get
Capital
Themselves
Engineers
Who
People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.
Shervin Pishevar
Politics
People
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Toy
Realize
Starting
One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
People
Opportunities
Collective
Our
Valley
Backgrounds
Must
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Make
Sure
Goal
Efforts
Tech
Aware
Two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia.
Steve Bannon
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Three-Quarters
South
South Asia
Asia
CEOs
Two-Thirds
What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.
Steve Blank
Needs
Me
Sports
Own
Every
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Struck
Outside
Football
Contains
Missing
Globally
Industry
How
Been
American
American Football
Region
Regions
Team
Strategies
Compete
Plays
Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley.
Steve Jurvetson
Entrepreneur
Leader
First
Elon Musk
Incredible
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
He
Since
Him
Known
Came
Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.
T. J. Miller
You
People
Some People
Important
Every
Valley
Way
Those
Though
Bad
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Some
Brothers
Something
More
Dawn
New
Come
Like
Know
Mistaken
New Era
Because
Does
Era
Up
Get
Done
Which
Much
Who
Specific
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.
T. J. Miller
Seriously
Important
Society
Everybody
Consider
Valley
Bit
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Seems
Takes
Most
How
Off
Contributions
Little
Little Bit
Themselves
Who
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
T. J. Miller
Else
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
More
Only
Than
Where
The Only Thing
Hollywood
Stranger
Ridiculous
Nowhere
Thing
Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
T. J. Miller
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Most
Unfortunately
Gaining
Race
Hollywood
Fast
Neck
Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.
Taavet Hinrikus
Innovation
People
Valley
Latest
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Because
Effect
Historically
Snowball
Where
Happening
Belief
If you think 'Game of Thrones' throws around some erroneous, unnecessary nudity, wait til you see 'Silicon Valley.'
Thomas Middleditch
You
Game
Wait
Think
Valley
Unnecessary
See
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Some
Throws
Around
Game Of Thrones
I've spoken to people in Silicon Valley, and many times they have said to me, 'X storyline, or that thing that happened in your show - pretty much verbatim has happened to me.' And it's either identical or similar enough to be scary.
Thomas Middleditch
Me
People
Enough
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Pretty
Scary
Similar
Spoken
Identical
Said
Times
Happened
Either
Storyline
Much
Your
Show
Many
Thing
I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.
Thomas Middleditch
Me
You
Business
Respect
Think
Programming
Software
Side
Valley
Bit
Kind
Silicon
Rush
Silicon Valley
Mainly
Stuff
Knocking
Know
Understand
How
Opposed
Taught
Gold
Door
Scripting
Little
Little Bit
Really
Creating
Business Side
Even
Element
I am an unabashed HBO fan. This is why being on 'Silicon Valley' is kind of like a dream.
Thomas Middleditch
Valley
Kind
Dream
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Like
Am
Being
Fan
Why
I grew up in the Silicon Valley when it was a bunch of apricot groves, and now it's this center of incredible activity. So I have this sense of what technology has done for this region, and I want to spread it to the world.
Timothy C. Draper
Technology
World
Sense
Incredible
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Spread
Up
Bunch
Done
Want
Grew
Center
Region
Activity
Now
I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.
Todd Park
Work
Time
Speed
Startup
Resources
Valley
Extremely
Sector
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Attack
Lean
Principles
Limited
Limited Resources
Doing
Go
Private
Private Sector
Mode
Short
Used
Teams
Amount
Things
Apply
Basically
If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together.
Tony Fadell
You
Together
People
Resources
Valley
Tried
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Network
Through
Investing
Takes
True
Look
Understand
Been
Tap
Where
Who
Pull
I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.
Vaclav Smil
Good
Trust
People
Writing
Progress
Big
Software
Valley
Say
Has-Been
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Pretty
Put
Beyond
Been
Impressed
Contribution
May
Human
Manipulating
Dismal
Human Progress
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
Vinod Khosla
You
Remember
Matter
Big
Else
Valley
Those
Silicon
Silicon Valley
More
Failed
Failures
Than
Often
Anybody
Anybody Else
Successes
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
Business
Try
Parents
Think
Startup
Our
Valley
Those
Exactly
Exactly What
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Days
Create
Garage
What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
Yves Behar
Knowledge
Business
Experience
Lost
Design
Valley
Has-Been
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Shaped
Primary
Industry
Learned
How
Been
Years
Role
Europe
Large
Company
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.
Yves Behar
People
Vision
First
Think
Our
Valley
Bay
Bay Area
Ability
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Area
Ideas
Around
Came
Mattered
Then
Worked
Create
Designers
Early
The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.
Jedediah Bila
Programs
Babysitter
Addictive
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Becoming
iPad
Things
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