When Sarah Lacy started PandoDaily, she used the metaphor of the Pando tree to describe what she loved about startups: Measuring 43 hectares and weighing 6,000 tons, they’re pretty impressive above...
Josh Leichtung's insight:
Is Silicon Valley largely a result of four companies whose prolific founders and early employees just happend to be located between San Francisco and San Jose?
Amazingly, the answer seems to be YES!
The mafias are:
> Fairchild Semiconductor
> Paypal
> Oracle
> Netscape
A quick, but absolutely facsinating history that gave rise to Silicon Valley.