How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara
Tech Won't Save Us
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Silkan Valley Ory
The cold war state created an extraordinary amount of opportunity for people that previously didn't have that opportunity. I think about, you know, people like andy grove. Came to the us in 19 58 as a hungarian immigrant. The refugee from communist hungary, speaking very little english, big thick eyeglasses, probably did not impress the person processing his paper. Well, turns out he goes and completes college and then gets his phd. In two andough years, and then goes on to cofound intell and become andy groves. That's a very big part of silkan valley ory. Why is it so successful? Not because americans are better attack
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