Nitpicking but Lucent was an American company. A Bell Labs spin-off according to the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Nitpicking but Lucent was an American company. A Bell Labs spin-off according to the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent. It merged with Alcatel (French indeed) but that was in 2006. Well after the rise of Silicon Valley, right around the time of the Web 2.0 pivot.