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Title: Secret History of Silicon Valley
Added: Dec 3, 2008
Author: ComputerHistory
Duration: 62:45
Description:
[Recorded: November 20, 2008]Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today.
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Tags: computer history museum silicon valley steve blank radar ww ii cold war bombing b29 b17 terman nsa cia espionage spying electronic warfare
computer history museum silicon valley steve blank radar ww ii cold war bombing b29 b17 terman nsa cia espionage spying electronic warfare
Youtube Comments: 91
TheBroadway135 Says:
Jan 28, 2012 - bomb on venezuela ,iran ,north korea, zinbabue, spy on china russia
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
Feb 12, 2012 - Im glad he likes to talk about this stuff. Not sure where at in the ranking they are at but high enough in that area.What does YALE say about this? LOL
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
Feb 12, 2012 - OSS should of formed it up. Brought people like me in... dropped 6 gliders all over Europe and stopped that and kept it covered up. 24 hour time hack before the airborne were dropped in. Or someone should of.
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
Feb 26, 2012 - What this guy talks about. Is what Eisenhower gave a speech about on Jan. 17th 1961.This is just an example of "stuff". Not what you think.
buzzlair Says:
Mar 13, 2012 - tell me you have made millions and i will think you are right. duh.
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TheRuralpoet Says:
Mar 20, 2012 - Steve Blank represents the best of US academics. This is a good story which is also an important history lesson. He also gives each player on the stage their due, the US - Britain and Germany and doesn't fall into the trap of jingoism. As a Briton his intelligent take on history makes me feel like The US and Britain have a future kicking anus together.
abhijithero Says:
Apr 10, 2012 - THESE ARE NEW ERA GODS.
evolking6 Says:
Apr 11, 2012 - I wonder if climate change is our next crisis?
XuxeTuMareee357 Says:
Apr 19, 2012 - dcxczxc
SrimaaCommunications Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - Follow latest updates on Silicon Valley as they happen at silicon-valley.infonary.com. A great way to stay in touch
eeg10 Says:
May 2, 2012 - You left out that some people (particularly Chinese historians) view World War 2 as starting on September 8, 1931 after the Mukden Incident when Japan annexed Manchuria.
chriswindley1 Says:
May 9, 2012 - Fascinating stuff - Thank you !!
TheTruthHurtsEvil Says:
May 12, 2012 - the military industrial (congressional) complex is certainly nothing to be proud of.
TheTruthHurtsEvil Says:
May 12, 2012 - good point. the cold war dynamic was of course at play before that, stage being set for later on i mean. as in who funded the 1917 rev, and why.
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - Well... are you living in the usa?Whats the issues with the usa and being said?I dont watch the news or anything. I dont talk to anyone in the usa really either.So whats up?
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - Congress doesnt own it. Just trust me.THIS GUYS SPEECH said enough.He would be working for people like me.You dont want to know.
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - Im going to leave this on while listening to him again.*afk*Gotta pay respects to usa.
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - This guys history lesson about bombing of the B-17s. Is so awesome hahaha.Thank god I wasnt around flying for Luftwaffle. I would eat you mother fuckers alive.
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - Women find this stuff boring. Thats fine.The guys that took charge of this, are the ones I would be playing chess against.Women dont know what to look for... and they want to be a politician (celebrity)? let them be a celebrity then.Im not like that though to where Im sexist, Im just showing you whats up.
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - I think its like that for alot of countries but whats the spending budget for usa?More than 50% goes into military right?
DarkPrinceNH5570 Says:
May 18, 2012 - The Pharaoh was here.AND HE APPROVES OF THIS VID.
TheTruthHurtsEvil Says:
May 18, 2012 - oh i know all about it. congress is just complicit in it is what the president at the time was trying to tell people, about you the unelected scum that are the ones running it all regardless of what govt gets in any fucking where.not that i am fooled by democracy - lots of the non-rich would be just like you if they got the chance. i just look at the world, and how much it deviates from what it should be like. that's all i need to know. in short you haven't got a clue how to run it.
TheTruthHurtsEvil Says:
May 18, 2012 - 'The Pharaoh was here.'hah!yeah you visit my little website luxco networks and have a look at the links page - that is what ra or god or whatever you want to call them wants the world to be like.how the fuck are you ancient khem? show me anywhee in your education or anything else of your society that builds buildings how egypt would do so, in accord with the human aura and energy body. your culture is so fake it doesn't even recognise that. it covers it up! cause it harms it!
tubbyboy1985 Says:
Dec 25, 2011 - this is a documentary about nazi germany