The Origins of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley wasn’t supposed to happen.
A stretch of California orchard land somehow became the place that built the modern world: chips, PCs, the internet, the smartphone, and now AI. But the real story isn’t the garage myth. It’s a series of contradictions hiding in plain sight. So what actually built Silicon Valley, and what does that tell us about where it’s going next?
We'll unpack:
The Cold War military money that quietly funded Silicon Valley's rise, before anyone called it that.
How a Stanford dean's real estate gamble changed the course of American technology.
Why the Space Race is…
The skinny
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