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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley

In the old days, semiconductors were still manufacturing actual objects. David Packard? Patrick Packard? Patriotic? I don't know what his voting record was, but a conservative in every sense that matters. His co-founder of Hewlett Packard, Bill Hewlett. The man who is generally credited as inventing the venture capital industry is Bill Draper,. William Draper ends the Second World War as a gentleman. And so how do you... The Stanford Research Institute? They created Silicon Valley. How do you go from these figures to Mark Zuckerberg? What happened there? There was a transitionary team.

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