Overview of Silicon Valley and the history of each cycle and industry

1. SILICON VALLEY
HISTORY
RICK RASMUSSEN

2. FIRST INHABITANTS
Indian Tribes arrived around 10000 BC
Costanoan, Ohlone, Tamien

3. CALIFORNIA HISTORY
Early Explorers
• Cabrillo Spain 1542
• Drake England 1579
• Portola Spain 1769
• deAnza Spain 1776
Spanish Jesuits
• Father Junipero Serra
• Missions, El Camino Real
• 1821 Mexico founded
1846
• Mexican American War
• California Republic
1849 Gold Rush
1850 Statehood

4. VALLEY OF
HEART’S DELIGHT
1900s Orchards
Cherry, Apricot, Peaches, Pears,
Walnuts, Almonds
Dried Fruit Capitol of the World

5. MOFFET FIELD
• Naval Air Station
• Cold War
• Start of the defense
electronics industry
• Electronic warfare
• A ready-made
customer for
semiconductors
• Diodes, transistors
• The Blue Cube

6. SILICON VALLEY
• Not a Valley
• Large clusters of
activity across multiple
industries, multiple sectors
• 6M people, $600B in GDP
• Critical mass in each
• University feeders
• Venture capital
• Infrastructure
• Entrepreneurial culture
• Worldwide talent
magnet

7. WAVES
Mobile

8. SEMICONDUCTORS
• It’s the Silicon of
Silicon Valley
• 1960s and 1970s
• Fairchild,National,
AMD, Intel, Signetics,
…
• Applied Materials, KLA,
Lam Research, Agilent,
Novellus
• Venture Capital started
• Manufacturing gone but
R&D and fabless model
still here

9. VENTURE CAPITAL
• Banks can’t finance
startups
• Nearly 50% of all US
funding comes from here
• Sand Hill Road
• Kleiner Perkins
• Sequoia Capital
• Draper Fischer
• MDV
• Infrastructure
• Lawyers
• Accounting Firms
• Consultants

10. COMPUTING
• 1970s and 1980s
• Mainframes, micros,
minis, personal
computing
• Amdahl, Fujitsu
• Apple, IBM Clones, Sun
Microsystems
• Silicon Graphics, MIPS,
DEC
• Maxtor, Seagate,
Tandon, Chips & Tech…

11. ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
• 1990s and 2000s
• Databases and apps
• Oracle
• VMware
• Citrix
• SAP
• Home of SaaS model
• Salesforce
• Netsuite
• Intuit
• Security
• Symantec
• McAfee
• Virtualization, Data
centers, Cloud
computing..

12. SOCIAL MEDIA
• 2000s and 2010s
• Centered on San
Francisco’s SOMA:
South of Market Area
• LinkedIn, Digg, Twitter,
Zynga, Wikipedia, Yelp
and more
• Google, Yahoo,
Facebook, iPhone apps,
Android
• Ad-driven, real business
models

13. CLEANTECH
• 2000s
• Hotbed for solar and
Green IT
• Smart grid
• Energy management
• Solar panel
production
• Automotive
• Tesla
• Better Place
• Coulomb

14. LIFE SCIENCES
• 1990s and 2000s
• Started by Genentech
• Cetus, Chiron
• Fed by research at
UCSF
• Biotechnology
• Drug development
• Stem cell research

15. WHAT’S NEXT?
• Silicon Valley is still
the center for
innovation world wide
• Innovation economies
are sprouting around
the world
• Big problems remain
unsolved
• Health, Education,
Climate Change,
Privacy & Security, …
• No signs of slowing

16. SILICON VALLEY
TOP 10 REASONS
1. Electronic Warfare
2. Math and Science
3. Climate
4. California Mentality
5. Immigration in waves
6. Inventing New Business Models
7. Sharing Culture
8. Boom and Bust
9. Reinvesting the wealth
10.Minimal government interference