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Is Silicon Valley represented solely by startups these days?

• duxup 7y ago
  Perspective is a problem even on HN. You have the folks who only think of FANG as far as anything tech / coding practices goes.... or only think of their greenfield startup as how things are done. Or that everything is some ultra deep back end computer science project ... and they bring those points of view to everything (that isn't necessarily bad or good). Granted, all that variety is nice, but I suspect a lot of the grass roots coding world just isn't quite what we see on HN.
  • blfr 7y ago
    This common criticism misses the fact that FANG, and greenfield startups, and even HN, set the tone for much of the tech industry. It is very likely that these grass root coders are or will be in the coming years using the very tools, methodologies, and even business practices devised in the Valley.
    • duxup 7y ago
      They certainly do those things. I think they also are a bit of a rabbit hole / and plenty of their tone never reaches the wider world while they chase new and shiny things.
• zwieback 7y ago
  In popular culture, yes. If you count up the sales or revenue numbers of very large companies then there are lots of the old companies left. I work for hp and I would also consider Intel, Apple and many of the chip suppliers as part of the original silicon valley. My dad worked for Shockley when SV started so for me it's hard to consider the FANG companies as "silicon" valley companies at all although they are shaping our lives just as much or even more as the previous generations of companies started there.