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Silicon Valley is successful because it was successful in the past. That attracts talented people looking to make it big, and it attracts money. You can put a
by GlennS 14y ago
Silicon Valley is successful because it was successful in the past. That attracts talented people looking to make it big, and it attracts money.
You can put a narrative spin on it if you like, pin it on West-Coast entrepreneurial spirit. Everyone likes to believe that their kind are a cut above, after all.
- geoffschmidt 14y agoSure, if you believe there are network effects to geography, then you can predict that there would be a Silicon Valley somewhere in the world. But why did it end up being in Northern California? Do you think that was pure accident? Could it have as easily been Tokyo? Frankfurt? Tehran? Oxford?
- dmorgan 14y ago>But why did it end up being in Northern California? Because at the time it started happening, and for other reasons, the US was the top dog in the world economy? The 2050 Silicon Valley will be somewhere else. Maybe China.