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That's symbolic. This marks the end of DIY garage entrepreneural days of the Silicon Valley. Now the corporate/careerist era has firmly settled in.
by cft 9y ago
That's symbolic. This marks the end of DIY garage entrepreneural days of the Silicon Valley. Now the corporate/careerist era has firmly settled in.
- ttul 9y agoThe garages are in China now.
- eyeareque 9y agoThe garages are too expensive now, as they’ve been converted into studio apartments.
- mc32 9y agoThere's still Fry's --which I don't know how they survive, given their inventory controls. Weird stuff was good for cheap as-is used parts though.
- calciphus 9y agoI mean, there's still HSC. http://www.halted.com/ http://www.halted.com/ It's not even that far from Weird Stuff, and unless you work at Yahoo probably a bit easier to get to (being right along central expressway). Growing up in the valley, HSC was my hacker shop and where my love of analog electronics flourished. If anything, the loss of Weird Stuff (which I am sad about) implies that garage days aren't about soldering resistors to a breadboard anymore. Hardware hackers are few and far between these days.
- zaarn 9y agoNow? Personally I think it has been a long time since the "garage entrepreneur" days of SV.