silicon valley a valley of brilliance and dreams
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Silicon Valley: A Valley of Brilliance & Dreams
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Agenda
Silicon Valley – San Francisco – Bay Area Before it was Silicon Valley The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Where did it Start What makes it Tick … Key Contributors Key Operatives Who/What – Eco System The Myth – Revolutionary Examples of Innovation Higher Ed & Technology
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SF- Silicon Valley – Bay Area
Region was created by seismic movements of rising Diablo and Santa Cruz mountains
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Before it was Silicon Valley, It was…
Valley of Heart’s Delight - Orchards and Dairy Farms World’s Largest producer of Apples, Prunes & Apricots
(Orchard Supply Hardware – OSH) Farming Machine Corporation (FMC) Canning of
produce to building Tanks for the US army Microwave Valley Indian Motorcycle company Ford Motor Company (over 14M Mustangs and trucks) Moffett Field – Hanger- Blimp
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Valley of Other (Technology) Industries Large Consulting/Contracting companies: e.g. Bechtel Bio Tech: e.g. Genentech, Chiron Automobile: e.g. Ford, NUMMI (Toyota – GM), Tesla Solar industry Marine Biology: Monterey Robotics Animation Movies: Pixar Research: Lawrence Livermore Lab, Berkeley Labs Lick Observatory Telescope Rocket Booster Technology Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
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Silicon was it …. There was lots of Technology:
all these provided the impetus, but it was
Silicon
that set the trajectory of the Valley …
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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly The Ugly, First Industrial Espionage Foreign governments espionage Law suits Business Patent/IP
The Bad • Raiding for talent • Reverse Engineering • “Value-proposition”: people – their skills and ideas • “No life” – Its Geek talk only • “Loose lips – sink Chips”
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The Good – and there is plenty of it Of all the industries – perhaps the most ethical lot “Value-proposition”: people – their skills and ideas “Everyone” has a shot at success – hard work,
innovation,.. Labor relations coordial Rank and file - Share in company’s success – stock
option grants, stock participation etc. “Open Door” policy, Access to management (MBWA) Casual environment Support structure – free food, recreation, ….
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Where did it Start? Shokley – The invention of the transistor The treacherous 8 – started the explosion Fairchild Instruments & Camera – Fairchild Semiconductor There was parallel activity at Bell Labs in New Jersey,
Southern California, Texas Instruments in Texas, Motorolla, etc. – Silicon Valley wasn’t a given
The 128 belt in MA was also springing up; IBM on the East coast (IBM had major operation in the valley inventing the Hard Disk Drive in San Jose)
The Fairchild alum and their alum and then their alum created the Silicon Valley avalanche
in 1950s – a handful of companies 1961 – over 150 companies and then there were thousands
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What make it Tick…….
Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom (Indiana U, professor) was a pioneer of the notion that complex human systems do not behave as economic “rational actor” models predict.
By examining “common-pool resources” where parties are utilizing finite assets – say, an irrigation system in Nepal – she discovered that people, given the right conditions, actually collaborate and share limited resources in positive-sum games, rather than fight against each other in zero-sum or negative-sum games
In the Valley we approach it as Co-pete (Cooperate & Compete) Grow the Pie – the concept being a smaller share of a large pie is
always greater than a larger share of a smaller pie Ostrom inadvertently discovered the recipe that underlies Silicon Valley, although she probably never
realized it in her lifetime. This correlation was identified by Victor Hwang of Forbes;
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Key Contributors Venture Capital Standards – so consumers win Quality Management System (e.g. ISO 9001) Always evolving Grow the Pie – Think BIG Build it and they will come (sometimes they don’t –
and that is why there are carcasses) - Lion King’s: Circle of Technology(a al life?)
No Unions Antitrust fear – keeps players in line Napkin business plans written Best and brightest – Immigrants contribution Walk across the street for a job
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Key Operatives The Vertical model collapse and the transformation to
a Horizontal model provided tremendous opportunities Moore’s law – The number of transistors on a piece of
silicon will double every 18 months Disruptive technologies Silicon Valley Mantra: Faster, Cheaper & Better SIG Special interest Group/Plug Fest – e.g., Wi-Fi,
USB
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Who/What is the Eco System Unique Schools – source of talent, research/innovation Support industries (test equip, mfg) Closer to customers for feed-back, face to face Mentors /Networking/Sharing ideas “The next start up” thinking Copete Brain-storming; “Your friends get it”
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Silicon Valley’s Brilliance
Brilliance also needs a little bit of luck and the right timing
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The Myth - Revolutionary Technology is about an evolutionary process
First mover advantage – really? distinction between
leading edge and bleeding edge
Each generation builds on the prior generation – the lock-step movement helps it move forward
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Examples of Innovation.. Apple, Sun, HP, Cisco, Tivo, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Netscape, Tandem Intel, AMD, nVidia, Micronics, Seagate Paypal, eBay,Adobe Oracle, PeopleSoft, Workday, Salesforce, Healtheon, Applied Materials, Lam, Solectron, Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, Teledyne Paypal, Netflix Khan Academy
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Higher Ed & Technology
Battle for MOOC (Massively Open Online Courses) • MITx edX: MIT, Harvard, UC-Berkeley • Udacity: Stanford professors • Coursera: Stanford professors offer courses from
Princeton, Stanford, Michigan, Penn; joined by U of Virgina, Duke, CalTech, John Hopkins, Rice, U of Edinburg
Platforms Udemy: Tools to design online course; e.g. designed by
professors at Dartmouth, Vassar, Colgate, Duke
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