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"If you move to the valley and send a letter home to your mom about how you bumped into Fred Wilson in a coffee shop, she would probably not run off to tell all
by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"If you move to the valley and send a letter home to your mom about how you bumped into Fred Wilson in a coffee shop, she would probably not run off to tell all her friends about it."
Yeah, but Fred Wilson is the Silicon Valley equivalent of a Harvey Weinstein. And, while I'm sure some people know who the Weinsteins are, they're not as famous as, say, Tom Hanks.
Ask your random sample who Steve Jobs is. Then, you'll get some traction. He would be the SV equivalent of Stephen Spielberg. Or, perhaps Bill Gates or Michael Dell, the respective George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis equivalents the tech world.
- alexophile 16y agoTom Hanks is a talented actor that went on to produce/direct - I think a very fair comparison would be someone like Paul Buchheit. I'm not going to go around asking, but I think it's safe to assume my sample would have no idea who he is. That being said, the point I was trying to make is that you can become very successful in SV and have nobody outside of the tech community know your name - your product is your product. In Hollywood, your product is you, success is, by definition, corellated with fame.