The Secret History of Silicon Valley

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Google Tech Talks
December, 18 2007

How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today

How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place
he works in? Silicon Valley.
Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you -
even seasoned Silicon Valley
veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur
Steve Blank will talk about how
World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of
Silicon Valley, and the role of
Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies
(including the CIA and the
National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that
sparked the creation of hundreds
of other enterprises.

Speaker: Steve Blank
Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high
tech companies in Silicon Valley,
most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been
involved in or co-founded eight
Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games,
and personal computers to
supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas
School of Business,
Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.

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Uploaded: December 21, 2007 at 3:12 am
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Video Comments:
highlandsnake (May 13, 2008 at 10:24 pm)
Buy/read THE REVOLUTION by Ron Paul who still, by the way, is still 'in' the race.
Go ahead... write him in.
danieleriskay (June 13, 2008 at 7:51 am)
Why write in an anti-american kook like Ron Paul? I'd prefer a candidate who supported the founding fathers, not some kook trapped in libertarian fantasy-land.
wulfone (May 7, 2008 at 9:51 pm)
We should be talking about Ron Paul.
nickqt (May 3, 2008 at 9:59 pm)
ahh, the intertwinement of government and industry, or, fascism.

hooray.
danieleriskay (June 13, 2008 at 7:56 am)
Umm.. I don't think you know what fascism is. You described a characteristic of fascism, but also a characteristic of communism, socialism, and "mixed-economy-ism." It's not the defining characteristic of fascism.
travelplus1 (April 20, 2008 at 7:23 pm)
gasite
NiaMeg (April 17, 2008 at 11:56 am)
My dad worked at RRL--he was an EE/PhD from Stanford
flagtube (April 6, 2008 at 4:44 am)
*SWITZERLAND* was also alone... ;-)
militaryradiomuseum (March 27, 2008 at 6:11 am)
Very interesting. You would have thought though he could have got his facts re RAF bombers right. The LANCASTER was the RAF bomber, the LANCHESTER was the Lanc's used as civilian airliners after the war.
militaryradiomuseum (March 27, 2008 at 6:10 am)
No, the Manchester was twin engine, the Lancaster was 4 engine. The Limcoln was the Lancaster in RAF use after the war. The Lanchester was the civilian Lancaster used after the war.