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No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. Silicon Valley wouldn’t have a computer company until 1966 when Hewlett Packard shipped the HP 2116 minicomputer.

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www.paulgraham.com

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In essense, let the market design the product. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them. Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers.

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