Geek Silicon Valley: The Inside Guide To Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco

Ashlee Vance

Overview

<p><p>The Real Silicon Valley</P><p>&nbsp;</P><p>Some people say that Silicon Valley is a state of mind, but the cultural trends that drive us today were actually born in a very real place&#8212;the garages and back rooms of the cities between San Francisco and San Jose, California. Geek Silicon Valley delivers Silicon Valley history, taking us from success story to failed start-up and back again as we drive the roads from Menlo Park to Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. </P><p>&nbsp;</P><p>Place by place, readers get the background info on all the addresses that count&#58; Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Stanford University, NASA Ames, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Santana Row, Genentech, and many more.</P><p>&nbsp;</P><p>Journey through a circuitry of places and people&#8212;and the stories that created today&#8217;s high-tech lifestyle&#8212;with Geek Silicon Valley.</P></p>

Details
Globe Pequot
9780762742394
Paperback
2007
EN
246 pages
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