A while back someone said to me "you don't work for a company, you work for the Valley". The meaning that the valley has become an entity unto itself. If that

A while back someone said to me "you don't work for a company, you work for the Valley". The meaning that the valley has become an entity unto itself. If that proposition is true, then the valley has become something equivalent to a large organization, like a big company, but much more of a loose confederation. But like other large organizations, it can be come lethargic and stuck in their ways. Only people who are connected the right way get opportunities and there is a set bureaucracy and so on. There has been an argument going on whether a large organization can be innovative. Another interesting question is whether a loosely confederated organization like the valley can loose it's innovativeness for the same types of reasons large organizations have trouble being innovative?