The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Google Tech Talks
December 18, 2007

How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today, presented by Steve Blank.

How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he/she works in - Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.

Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.

This talk was hosted by Boris Debic

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[someman7]

I won't say I know about "area bombing", but there's absolutely no precision in anihiliating a city full of innocents. Even if the dropped some stupid flyers. They have no right for "dehousing" anyone, let alone dropping a bomb on two cities. I believe Osama always warns about attacks too. Would you have evacuated New York? Or London? And he's not even destroying cities.

Justify it all you want, it was a crime against humanity and murder of civilians. TWICE

[DrLight9]

Fascinating.

[mumulove]

Dude comes off like a real prick

[startupbuildervideos]

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[adelle0001]

nice one!

[bcbk93]

@SlavesAreDisarmed Interesting but Im not seeing how you think that was its purpose.....???

[Neojhun]

@sidw Realy, you have no qualms about "dehousing". Ok, lets just hope your english is just under par. YOu do understand "dehousing" means killing everybody in your city. Back then practicaly everybody you know. I am warfare agnostic, love weapons and war machines. Don't like killing people for politics. So do you want to rethink "stupid hippy".

[supriya55]

should be called the secret 'technical' 'early' history of silicon valley

[RalfLippold]

Four years ago I definitely had no idea of #InnoBay

[wdcsucks1]

thanks shockley, you helped to turn us all slaves to the military industrial complex!

[LeroyTheThird]

LANCASTER bomber not LANCHESTER!!!!!

[SlavesAreDisarmed]

ANYONE who doesn't know that the internet was created with the sole purpose of ensnaring the entire population onto a control grid for absolute monitoring throughout every person's lifetime is the exact reason why this control grid has been allowed to take root and flourish. Children today have been and will be monitored, cataloged and mind controlled with such stunning efficiency and expertise, they will not even realize they are enslaved and imprisioned. Gleefully they press enter...