La Silicon Valley non era un miracolo. Era un sistema.
Silicon Valley was not a miracle.
It was a system.
A reading of The Code
by Margaret O'Mara
Federal money. Stanford industry park. Immigration.
Venture capital. Counterculture meritocracy.
— the moment a university planted Silicon Valley
In 1951, Frederick Terman convinced Stanford to lease 660 acres to high-tech firms only. HP, Lockheed, GE moved in. By 1971 the term 'Silicon Valley' first appeared in print. Every tech cluster on earth has since tried to copy this one move.
The garage myth is comforting because it makes you the protagonist. The real story is that you are running on infrastructure — Cold War contracts, Stanford pipelines, immigration policy, VC firms, Whole Earth ethos. None of which you built. Most attempted Silicon Valleys around the world copy two or three of these ingredients and stall. The most important thing a founder can do is understand the system you're in — and notice when the system shifts. It is shifting now.
Silicon Valley is not a place.
It is a recipe.
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