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SILICON VALLEY: A GOLD RUSH LEGACY
Silicon Valley Association CHWebster University Graduate Program in
Telecommunication ManagementGeneve-Bellevue
January 26, 2004
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SPEAKER
Richard Allan HorningChair, Emerging Technologies Practice GroupTomlinson Zisko LLPPalo Alto
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ELEMENTS OF AN ENTREPRENEURIAL ENVIRONMENT
• Perceived Opportunity• Risk Takers• Support Infrastructure• Propagation of Knowledge and Skills• First Class Educational System
Encouraging Entrepreneurship• Capital and Liquidity• Rewards and Honors
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EARLY OBSERVATION OF THE OPPORTUNITY
“In the hands of an enterprising people, what a country [California] might be” -- Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
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A VAST WASTELAND
• “A village of 600 to 800 inhabitants … with thousands of ground squirrels burrowing in the plaza” – description of San Jose on 1846 when the population of all of California was 7,500
• “Not a single modern wagon to be had …, nothing but the old Mexican cart with wooden wheels, drawn by two or three pairs of oxen yoked by the horns” -- Lt. William Tecumseh Sherman, reporting on Monterey in 1847 when the population was 1,000 to 1,200
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JANUARY 24, 1848
Eureka !
“Gold Mine Found”, The Californian, March 15, 1848 “California, no doubt, is rich in mineral
wealth; great chances are here for scientific capitalists”
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CALIFORNIA IN 1865
• Population has soared to 365,000
• Wheat crop more valuable than gold
• Manufacturing revenue $20M greater than gold mined in foothills
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THE BIG FOURCrocker, Hopkins, Stanford, Huntington
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OPENING THE WEST1863 - 1869
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THE FARM
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PALO ALTO AS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
“It requires no prophet’s tongue to foretell that in the future Palo Alto will be a center sun, whose rays shall clasp within their bright radii greater opportunities for culture and education, more forms of grace and beauty wrought from the willing elements at hand, and a community of higher intellectual development than can be found within the same extent anywhere else in the world” – Palo Alto promotional brochure (circa 1890)
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FEDERAL RADIO TELEGRAPH CO(1909)
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EARLY WI-FI
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THE LAND GRANT SCHOOL
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BERKELEY CYCLOTRON(1932)
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FEDERAL RADIO SPIN OFFS
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ANOTHER STANFORD SPIN-OFF
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STANFORD GRADS HIT BIG TIME
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CROCKER RESEARCH LAB
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THE TUBE
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SHOCKLEY SEMI-CONDUCTOR
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THE TRAITOROUS EIGHT
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THE INVENTION OF THE VALLEY
Don Hoefler, “Silicon Valley USA”, Microelectronic News, January 11, 1971
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THE ULTIMATE GOLD RUSH LEGACY
Business & Professions Code Section16600. Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.