Another Silicon Valley in terms of past and present

　　Editor's Note: many places and countries everywhere in Silicon Valley, claim to be xxx, but many are just Silicon Valley, without the soul of Silicon Valley. With Leslie Berlin in the Medium of long blog for in-depth analysis of how Silicon Valley is. The Chinese version of the paper compiled by the Zhuhai rudder of heaven, because full-text length is longer, for the convenience of readers ' appreciation, it will be divided into three parts for broadcasting, and the three parts can be written independently. This article is the first part, respectively, from the three historic describes Silicon Valley to become Silicon Valley's technological, cultural, financial reasons ...

　　"You if you do not know the context of history, you cannot know the future direction. "

　　Jobs on this believed, as a young, he when on had spent has large of time to than he old generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are for learn, like Robert Noyce (IC inventor one of, fairy child semiconductor company and Intel common founded who one of), Andy Grove (Intel joint founder one of), and Regis McKenna (jobs of guide consultant, had design has Apple of Logo).

　　

 

　　Steve Jobs and Robert Noyce

　　Steve worked for Germany the philosopher Schopenhauer, a description of the magic to its attitude towards history (English translation):

　　If a person can keep an eye on growth of two to three generations, then that person is like sitting on a magician watching the magician magic show two or three times in a row. The magic was supposed to the audience at the front desk to see just once, if the Feds is two or three times, the magic doorway is what you will be going on in the chest, you will never be surprised or cheated.

　　History, Steve jobs, is giving him a chance in the business of magic before appeared in front of him to see, to see the magic behind the doorway so that he will be able to do punches, come what gear, strategist. Rich without holding the heart of shame for

　　In 2014, I had to visit the Internet and PC authority figure Robert w. Taylor. Taylor has persuaded United States Department of Defense established the ARPANET-the origins of the Internet. He also operated the famous "Xerox Park laboratory of computer science and technology" and created the first personal computer. Taylor's collection is finally his formed DEC Research Centre developed an unusually rapid search engine than Google set up as early as 3 years.

　　When I live in Silicon Valley to the top of Taylor's home when he told me recently there was another young man carrying and when jobs like wonder came to visit him he is Mark Zuckerberg, and his Facebook group.

　　"Zuckerberg is certainly had heard of this relic is still a little sense of history", Taylor said in his slow Texas tone. "He wanted to see what was going on, I think it is like that. "

　　Investing in the future, we must first understand the past

　　As a historian specializing in Silicon Valley, I have no doubt that Steve jobs and makezhaerboge both are very clearly aware of that: the past affects the future of Silicon Valley, the lessons of history will lead to more innovation. When I and other company founders talk about the aspects of time, they are also in Silicon Valley's history is full of curiosity. Their problem will eventually boil down to these two:

　　1. Why is Silicon Valley first come out?

　　2. why Silicon Valley long standing in the global technology center which has long?

　　For these two issues, I think I can give an answer. Here we answer the first question first, the answer is found in the following three history, is that they make now in Silicon Valley:

　　1. the history of science and technology

　　2. culture and history

　　3. financial history

　　4. the history of science and technology

　　As far as science and technology, Silicon Valley is more or less lucky of Divine Providence. In 1955, one of the inventors of the transistor-William Shockley returned to his hometown near Palo Alto, founded the company in Silicon Valley. William Shockley used and his colleagues shared the 1956 Nobel Prize, he was an excellent teacher, but it's also a very bad entrepreneur and boss. But just because he was an outstanding teacher, so he is likely to attract a large number of young people to work for them. When they go through after the tiny transistors, they started towards the direction of semiconductor electronics alone began to enter.

　　Said William Shockley is the entrepreneur and owner of a very bad, a lot of people can't wait to leave came after his company and worked for other companies, other companies often end up here means that founded their own company. William Shockley 8 staff is very famous in 1957 co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor company (investment by the parent company, Fairchild camera company), the company is acknowledged as the first Silicon Valley start-ups with modern means. When Fairchild left fell apart in the late 60 's, its employees (including the previously mentioned that 8 people) began to create countless new companies, including Intel, United States Semiconductor, AMD, and so on. Published in the early 80 's famous best-seller the hot Silicon Valley (Silicon Valley Fever) writes: "half of the approximately 70 semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley, is the direct or indirect descendants of the Fairchild company.

　　Shockley had an angry scolding 8 as "Traitorous Eight" (The Traitorous Eight), the diagram below shows the "Traitorous Eight" style.

　　

 

　　Fairchild 8 people group: Gordon Moore, and Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, and Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last

　　Can equate the future importance of the fact that Silicon Valley: Shockley has taught his employees how to build a transistor. We are all modern technological revolution-related technology and Silicon Valley glory dating back to the birth of the transistor.

　　We can all think of transistor is formed in Silicon Valley that one of the most original of this Pearl of sand. The sand into a Pearl, the next step is, it is then these transistors and other registers, capacitors, integrated with the separate components on a silicon wafer to form a complete electronic circuits, and this piece of silicon wafer became the microchips. Then someone made a chip that can be programmed according to the integrated circuits, microprocessors emerged. Prehistory the first pocket calculator was invented on the basis of the microprocessor. Followed it was found that these can be microprocessors and other components such as screen to integrate this computer appears. People began writing code for these computers to operate the computer, the operating system appears. People began to write applications on these operating systems, such as Facebook was born. People began realized that we should can will some things for virtual of, will some content store in cloud Shang and non-computer internal, while also realized that can will save in different of computer Shang of content for search, then network computer of concept on appeared has-retained with screen, and keyboard, and mouse equipment (now main is finger has)-build out flat computer and handheld computer size of computer-intelligent phone on appeared has. And then we started writing App for these smart devices ...

　　Here you should have noted that the changes described above are followed by Moore's agenda forward.

　　In the process of formation of pearls, peel off each layer of the sand deposited by the technology is formed by the industry's next-generation technology foundation. Often billed as a benchmark of Apple as an example, Apple's early Intel,Atari are the key employees, or HP. Apple's venture backers not have invested in Fairchild is Intel, or used to work in them. The famous Macintosh, has a friendly user interface that renders a cascading forms, mouse, which is because Steve Jobs visited XEROX PARC in 1979 visit to get inspired is born. In other words, Apple is a product of the historical environment and technology roots in Silicon Valley.

　　Cultural history

　　Here we begin to see Silicon Valley today spawned the second pillars of power: culture. When Shockley was in 1955 brought Silicon Valley transistors and the young talent time, Silicon Valley, most of this land is dominated by farming, so Shockley founded the local industry can be said to have been very high (or, according to the people at that time was: space-age). When employees ' biggest defense contractors Lockheed Corporation; IBM is preparing to open a small research organization in Silicon Valley; local indigenous company HP was just more than 10 years old.

　　Was trying to establish the Stanford University Physics and Engineering Department is very active. Professor Frederick Terman (as well as Provost at Stanford from 1955 to 1965) was very worried about Stanford University the problem of the brain drain, after all, relatively speaking, United States there are more job opportunities over there on the East Coast. So he joined up with then President J.E. Wallace Sterling Terman referred to together to create the "technical college community" through the Community College talents cultivation and industrial talents demand bond is formed. This means a lot of semiconductor and micro-chip type of birth is already everything is only a strong wind, because technical talent Stanford has ready for you.

　　

 

　　Woz and Jobs.

　　East end of this acceleration is the process of with the population explosion and the emergence of. From 1950 to 1970, Santa Clara (Silicon Valley location) of the population over 3 times, from about 300,000 residents suddenly jumped to 1 million. Is equivalent to this 20-year period, every 15 minutes a person moved to Santa Clara. These new residents are generally younger than the indigenous inhabitants, have a better education. Eventually mainstream Silicon Valley from a bunch of older farmers are transforming into a gang of more than 20 years has a diploma of higher education, Dr.

　　All of these highly educated flocked to Silicon Valley high-tech talent, means that Silicon Valley has been able to create a new environment for new companies, and because of the diversity of talents, which will make the environment can be self-perpetuating. For example: you can set up specialized law firms, recruiters, prototype design company, stock company set up specifically for high-tech campus for specific talents for the company.

　　In the early days, feel like Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs on the contrary on the East Coast. People see themselves as Cowboys and pioneers in the West, fighting on the front line. People here are very brave fast learning and practice, even if failure does not think it is a shame, but that is just a big lesson. In the 70 's, with the rise of anti-mainstream thought, Silicon Valley firms have also begun, with its looser and simpler culture known to the world. However, their products, such as video games and personal computers, is to "other people" brings advanced technology to enjoy.

　　Financial history

　　Funds prompted the birth of Silicon Valley is the third key factor! like a seed to grow the plant need soil, sunlight, water, above we can see the seeds of Silicon Valley, technology that Sun, culture the soil, shortage of funds of this.

　　At the critical time, Silicon Valley start up in federal money. Regardless of is because mod overall acquisition has Silicon Valley of those enterprise all of micro-chip, also is HP and Lockheed at will products direct to army, and or is federal research funds Chung to Stanford University, Silicon Valley are so from cold war in the of fear sense in the for profit, because mod and Federal Government this during very of willing to will almost all of funds into this tip of electronic and electronic system products. Therefore, the Federal Government, can be said to be the first investor in Silicon Valley!

　　Followed from the first VC firm set up a wave of shock in the 70 's Silicon Valley. Sequoia Capital and KPCB, two of the world's largest venture capital company was established in 1972 on the Fairchild alumni. They have invested in Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Dropbox, United States electronic arts, Facebook,Genentech, Google, Instagram,Intuit, and LinkedIn-and those are just the tip of the corner.

　　This generation of entrepreneurs are successful then turned around for the next generation of entrepreneurs with capital and management support model, in fact, is the sustainable success of the Silicon Valley's most important and yet one of the little-known secrets. Robert Noyce described it as (paraphrasing): "I am in this stream to catch fish, then I have a responsibility to the stream accordingly back to the inside of the fish to sustainable growth." Jobs, in his famous "jobs 2005 Stanford commencement address" inside, the pattern described in an ongoing acts of the baton in the relay race.

　　That's three reasons why Silicon Valley was born. But, how it was able to withstand the test of storms continued to thrive? stay tuned for the next episode of another Silicon Valley in terms of past and present 2-development and change

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