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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara

Tech Won't Save Us

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Lockheed, Lockheed Lockheed and Lockhed - The Biggest Employer in the Valley

Stanford becomes major recipient of federal money. It also grows defense contracting firms, aero space companies. Lockheed is the bigest employer in the valley from the 19 fifties through to pretty much the end of the cold war,. You'd never know it because almost all they did was top secret stuff.

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