Christophe Lécuyer
Making Silicon Valley
Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930 - 1970
MIT Press, 2005
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How the San Francisco Peninsula’s unique entrepreneurs, tech geeks, inventors and investors turned it into Silicon Valley.
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In the mid-1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, founders of a Silicon Valley startup named Apple, asked Intel retiree Mike Markkula to invest in their firm. Sensing that it could become a winner, he gave them $92,000 and, in 1977, went to work for the company. Three years later, Apple went public and Markkula made millions. Time and again over the decades, this amazing story has repeated itself on the San Francisco Peninsula now known as Silicon Valley. getAbstract finds that historian Christophe Lécuyer does a capable, intriguing, intricately researched job of taking readers behind the scenes to learn how Silicon Valley first developed, what makes it tick and what its high-tech mastery has accomplished. While some of the technical terms may require a learning curve, this is the place to learn about the center of technology in the U.S. before it came to create and dominate the high-tech industry.
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About the Author
Christophe Lécuyer studied history and history of technology at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
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