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The dark history of Silicon Valley

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Stanford University - A Real Strategy From the Beginning, Right?

At the turn of the 20th century, Palo Alto becomes a home to three really important institutions. You've got Stanford University, you've got the military industrial complex and big tech or what became big tech. The story telling the book is that these three things are sort of interdependent and related incestuously to one another.

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