The Entire History of Silicon Valley

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I am the co-founder of soylent.com and lucy.co, both of which were funded by Y Combinator (Summer 2012 and Winter 2018).
I've been an entrepreneur for the last decade across multiple companies. I've done a lot of work in Silicon Valley, so that's mostly what I talk about. I've raised over 10 rounds of venture capital totaling over $100m in funding.
I work mostly in tech-enabled consumer packaged goods, meaning I use software to make the best products possible and then deliver them to the widest possible audience. I'm a big fan of machine learning, python programming, and motion graphics.
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[@GarryTan]

Epic win. Great history

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It's honestly insane how massive the impact has been.

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[@treyeshuatruth]

But the future will be totally different.

[@treyeshuatruth]

The VC game is almost over.

[@4kgotit]

Having a historical knowledge of VCs can definitely help startup founders have more leverage in their company!

[@JupiterCamelz]

A lot of the Tech companies of today, were literally program names with workings within Stanford University. Basically, they were small ideas that were made big hence their names, I read this in a book, I’ll update when I find that book in my home library

[@realrogers890]

Found it? please

[@JupiterCamelz]

@@realrogers890 “none dare to call it a conspiracy”

[@paulgriffith9570]

Intel, Fairchild, National, Signetics built the Silicon Valley by making chips before software took over.

[@Ryosuke-12]

No,it was harvard and also college dropouts

[@finalbox4416]

Fun fact: In 1968, Warren Buffett was serving on the board of trustees for Grinnell College in Iowa. One of Buffett's fellow board trustees, Bob Noyce, was raising the seed capital to start Intel. The college endowment decided to invest $100k in Intel (total round size was $2.5 million (Buffett wasn't the one who proposed the idea in the first place, but he did vote in favour of it, because he had full trust in the judgment of his fellow board members). Now, Buffett also had the opportunity to invest his own money in Intel, but he rejected, because he doesn't like technology investments. [source: The Snowball by Alice Schroeder p. 277]

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The fact that there was such a huge ruse in California for this talent is interesting. Seeing the social network made me notice that some of these startups were just some nerdy kids getting big wins with their idea.

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Working in tech I didn’t understand the VC world. Wow did this provide so much history and context for why things are today. 🙏🏼 Love the channel!

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Gotta say that was a rare 15 minute video where I didn't feel like it could have been done in 2 minutes (and I didn't feel my time was wasted). Great to start with whaling and finish with masterworks too.

[@MDMD-wt3bu]

This is a great summary but if anyone wants to read a detailed history I’d recommend reading The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption.

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I don't understand much about these things, but I just love how this guy explains things

[@trapbois4573]

To think that venture capitalists could acquire companies and reap major rewards when the founding team typically doesn't get the same control over the direction of their own company goes to show that dual-class shares are important for control. Series A, B and C funding are helpful because owners can effectively get immense money to scale or grow their business without losing much control, shares or profit. Since every company does their equity contracts differently because of the ambiguity regarding the legal terms, some owners may be lucky in the deal while others might take a bullet.

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This is such a good explanation mashed up with so random images of whatever movies its funny to watch.

[@warrenpeece1726]

Interesting. I have one of those marketing "map of Silicon Valley" from around 1985 or so. There are at least 30 actual chipmakers there - names like IMI, IMP, Exel, Exar, VLSI Technology, SEEQ, IDT, Supertex, Micrel, Toshiba, Fairchild, Sipex, and the highly influential Ion Implant Services.

[@paulgriffith9570]

Yes it was the center of silicon C development and manufacturing. That's how it got its name.

[@paulgriffith9570]

Silicone Valley got it's name in the 60s from IC development and manufacturing by Intel, Fairchild, National, Signetics before it all went off shore.

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Really enjoyed this. Thanks for inspiring me to make a vid of my own on the subject diving into the prelude to Silicon Valley's rise 🙏

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[@kyleschutter]

Great video. A big part is skipped over. Why was silicon valley started in the bay area? It turns out that 1. The geography of the bay had brought the military around 1900 who needed tech. 2. The geography of the bay which didn't have bridges at the time depended on hamm radio operators for communication, hence Telegraph Ave. 3. Already before the jeans and t shirt culture of startups like Google, the area was known to be more relaxed in work attire even in the 1910s, possibly due to the wild west attitude of the gold rush. 4. Palo Alto area has literally the best weather in the most growing country at the time. If you wanted the best lifestyle while pursuing odd new tech like radios this was the place to do it so it became a magnet for talent.

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Awesome summary!

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thanks a lot Derek! glad you enjoyed it!

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Sebastian Mallaby's book "The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future" is all about this

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[@MichaelMcCausland-pg6qs]

This was the movement of venture capital and yes, the individual coin that term to the West Coast not LA

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I love that your video image is Microsoft and Tesla. Two companies that aren’t Silicon Valley companies.

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