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> Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley. Going off on a tangent, this is re
by dpark 8y ago
> Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.
Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?
- pm90 8y agoIts a lazy way to jump on the SV bandwagon. So Austin is/was known as Silicon Hills or something and there are many other Silicon Something monikers for other places.
- retr0grad3 8y agoSilicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connotation.
- hpcjoe 8y agoI wonder which state will be Silicon Commode ...
- thewhitestguy 8y agoCalifornia.
- yongjik 8y agoWell, at least they copied the meaningful part of "Silicon Valley". In Korea we have Pangyo Valley and Teheran Valley. (And no, they aren't valleys.)
- DonHopkins 8y agoSilicon Sinkhole
- stordoff 8y agoI sometimes hear Cambridge referred to as Silicon Fen, and always thought it was dumb (there should be enough strength in the Cambridge name on its own).
- bartread 8y agoI agree, and particularly so since Cambridge itself isn't even in The Fens.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoI've heard it called Silicon Prairie, which it was called way back in the 70's and 80's. It does make sense though, since Texas Instruments and various computer companies were based there, which is the same reason Silicon Valley got its name. If anything, Austin is more deserving of the "Silicon X" moniker than the Bay Area, as TI invented the silicon transistor and the integrated circuit.
- tntn 8y agoRight on. "Silicon Slopes" is surprisingly effective attempt by Utah County people to get investors to dump money there. Quick summary of the companies in "Silicon Slopes": Qualtrics (surveys), Domo (vapor), Adobe, Micron (fab only, but claim to "silicon" in the name), Nu Skin (MLM cosmetics/diet supplements) , doterra (essential oil MLM), NatureSunshine (MLM). Great place to be. Lots of innovation in MLMs.
- alasdair_ 8y ago>Great place to be. Lots of innovation in MLMs. Religion and MLM companies seem to be strongly correlated.
- dustinlocke 8y agoBuilt-in social network. Most church-goers automatically have access to a couple hundred people in the neighborhood. I live in Utah and I hate MLMs so much.
- tialaramex 8y agoAlso it pre-selects for people who don't say, "But this story makes no sense whatsoever" after your pitch. 419 scammers use deliberately poor grammar and other choices to weed out the people who will figure out it's a scam before they hand over any money, same for an MLM. You want the people who'll lie and cheat and pump every dime they have into your MLM, not the ones who attend a seminar, make interested noises then walk away after losing less that $100.
- shemnon42 8y ago> Also it pre-selects for people who don't say, "But this story makes no sense whatsoever" after your pitch. Thanks for exposing your biases, but you are wrong. It's more of a quid-pro-quo exchange on some of these MLMs or trying to be supportive of someone else's venture in your community. Nearly all know it is overpriced and not necessarily what they need, but it is the rapid exchange of social capital that keeps those communities the way they are. Before MLMs it was casseroles, cookies, tools, helping hands, and babysitting.
- yesimahuman 8y agoAmazon has been lumped into Silicon Valley in the media for so long the term is almost becoming a catch-all term for a group of large tech co's
- drewying 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers#Places_with_%22Silicon%22_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers#Pla... There're a lot of them out there
- wpietri 8y agoIn the sense of being consciously modeled on Silicon Valley, copying many of the practices, I think it's fair to call some other tech scenes offshoots. New York I'd call different in that it's very media- and finance-heavy and leans on existing business tradition more. But even in NYC I can think of some companies that strike me as much more SV in culture than the NY median. And Seattle I don't know well enough to say. Broadly, though, there are a ton of places that are (or would very much like to be seen as) Silicon Valley offshoots. Wikipedia lists dozens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers
- dpark 8y agoI think it's absurd to claim that every tech center is an offshoot of Silicon Valley. No one does this for other industries. Milan isn't considered an offshoot of Paris because it has a fashion industry. Chicago isn't considered an offshoot of New York because it has a financial industry. Similarly New York isn't considered an offshoot of London because it has a financial industry. Only for tech do we do this.
- anitil 8y agoOh dear, don't get me started on 'Silicon Beach' (Bondi Beach, Sydney)...
- toomanybeersies 8y agoWhat does Melbourne get then; Silicon River? I've heard Wellington referred to as Silicon Welly before, which is sort of cute. I think that I've only ever heard it used tongue in cheek though, never seriously.