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For what it's worth, a lot of us CS autodidacts from the 1980's didn't grow up in the Bay Area. Bill Gates is from Seattle, Johns Carmack and Romero from flyove
by KerrAvon 3y ago
For what it's worth, a lot of us CS autodidacts from the 1980's didn't grow up in the Bay Area. Bill Gates is from Seattle, Johns Carmack and Romero from flyover country, etc. You could learn this stuff anywhere.
What defines the Bay Area is the VC gold rush fever that took root here. But the VCs at this point want Stanford graduates.
- nradov 3y agoThe funny thing is that the early VC gold rush investments mostly went to companies founded by older workers who gained their experience working in the military-industrial complex and its suppliers. You can trace a lot of early Silicon Valley history back to military radar and communications research that started during WW2.