The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong
This is Part VI of how I came to write “The Secret History of Silicon Valley“. This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. —————- The next piece...
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I was at the Stanford library going through the papers of Fred Terman and came across a memo from 1956 that probably hasn’t been seen or read in over 50 years. It had nothing to do with the subject I...
View ArticleThe Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You Never...
These next series of posts chronicles the untold story of how one professor returning from one war decides to enlist Stanford University in waging the next one and by accident, laid the foundation for...
View ArticleThe Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of Entrepreneurship
This post makes sense in context with the previous post. ——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and...
View ArticleThe Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in Microwave...
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental...
View ArticleThe Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the Rubicon
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental...
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