Table of
Contents
2. Dream Makers: The Secret Sauce behind Silicon Valley’s
Success (1950-2010)
5. Partners:
Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, and Fred Terman at HP and Stanford (1930-1970)
6. The
Moles: Military Boom, Artistic Boom, and Economic Boom (1941-48)
7. Early
Funders: The Early History of Venture
Capital (1900-59)
9. Graybeard
Funders: Venture Capital in its Clubby
Days (1955-78)
11.
Chipmakers: Intel’s Creation and Re-Creation (1965-98)
12. The
Geniuses: DRAM, Intel, SRI, PARC, Arpanet, and Utopia (1968-71)
13. Lab
Inventors: Xerox PARC and the Innovation Machine (1969-83)
13. Helpers:
Lawyers and Investment Bankers
(1970-2000)
15. The
Entrepreneurs: Apple, Oracle, Unix, Biotech, Alternative Music, and
Spirituality (1976-80)
16. Database
Lords: Larry Ellison and his Lost Co-Founders (1977-2010)
17. The
Warriors: Personal Computers, Killer Applications, and SUN (1980-83)
18. Early
Failures: Good Ideas which Arrive Early are Bad Products (1980-94)
19.
Magicians: Steve Jobs’ Reality
Distortion Field and Apple Computer
(1976-2010)
21. The
Startups: Fabless Manufacturing, Networking, Mobility, and Nanotech (1987-90)
22. The
Surfers: World-Wide Web, Netscape, Yahoo, Multimedia, and Bioinformatics (1990-95)
23. Funder
Builders: The Heyday of Venture Capital (1978-2000)
24. Dot.com
Failures: Startups that Went Bust in the Tech Boom (1991-2000)
25. The
iBoomers: Google, Hotmail, Java, the Dotcoms, High-speed Internet, Greentech
(1995-98)
26. The
Other Boomers: The Y2K Bug, Wi-Fi, Personal Digital Assistants, and DNA Mapping
(1995-98)
27.
Googlers: From Search Startup to Big Brother (1995-2010)
28.
Monopolists: eBay, Google, Facebook, and the Network Effect (1998-2010)
29. The
Survivors: Paypal, Wikipedia, and Genomics (1999-2002)
30. Lost
Funders: Venture Capital Struggling in
the Aughties (2001-10)
31. Aughties
Failures: Startups that Died of Indigestion (2001-10)
32. The
Downsizers: Facebook, YouTube, Web 2.0, and Tesla (2003-06)
35. A
Timeline of Silicon Valley