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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:44:27 David Rosenthal We're about to enter an era where the entire traditional media industry is going to be either running scared or actively trying to fight tech in Silicon Valley.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:31 Ben Gilbert And much like the development of Silicon Valley, which we talked about in our Lockheed Martin episode, there's sort of this positive feedback loop that keeps that area the main area for this.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:06 David Rosenthal Brought you down here to Silicon Valley to, uh, record our 10 year anniversary holiday special here.
- ▶ 0:21 David Rosenthal I was actually thinking, uh, we should try and find the Silicon Valley house, the Ehrlich Bachmann Aviato.
- ▶ 25:56 Michael Lewis Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Washington, movie business, sports, the various things.
- ▶ 1:55:59 Michael Lewis And what a normal Silicon Valley venture capitalist does before they put money in a company.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:18 David Rosenthal Silicon Valley's about to boom.
- ▶ 1:20:24 David Rosenthal The California hippie counterculture Summer of Love movement kind of bifurcated and went off in a whole bunch of different directions, and one of those directions was Silicon Valley and tech and computers and Steve Jobs and Nolan Bushnell…
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:41 David Rosenthal So this leads to one of the most fateful dinners in Silicon Valley's history, organized in the summer of 2015 at the Rosewood Hotel on Sand Hill Road.
- ▶ 1:31:56 David Rosenthal Of course, where else would you do a dinner in Silicon Valley but the Rosewood?
- ▶ 1:32:01 David Rosenthal By two of the most leading figures in the Valley at the time, Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:04 David Rosenthal From the Silicon Valley HBO show.
- ▶ 1:03:46 David Rosenthal To navigate the Silicon Valley ecosystem and the internet ecosystem and Jim Clark.
- ▶ 2:28:15 David Rosenthal General Magic, of course, legendary failed startup in Silicon Valley in the early nineties.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:12 David Rosenthal So the whole family goes out and lives in Palo Alto, and Stanford and early Silicon Valley there makes a big impression on young Larry.
- ▶ 7:43 David Rosenthal Carl Jr. would ultimately also come down to Silicon Valley and, uh, play a little role in this story as we will see in a little bit.
- ▶ 27:50 David Rosenthal Because it's 1996, 1997, you're here in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 30:45 David Rosenthal He's one of the top VCs in the Valley.
- ▶ 37:56 David Rosenthal This has started to spread virally first on the Stanford campus, and then to other academic universities and communities out there get wind of what they're doing, and then it starts spreading into Silicon Valley, and it's like bringing the…
- ▶ 46:49 David Rosenthal So Rahm arranges a meeting, and the next time that Jeff is in Silicon Valley, they all meet at Rahm's house, and similar to Andy Bechdelsheim, Jeff's like, great.
- ▶ 1:42:26 David Rosenthal Convincing them to hire a CEO is take them around the valley, take them on the tour, have them meet the CEOs of the great companies in the valley, the public companies, and say, look, see what a great CEO can do for your business.
- ▶ 1:42:41 David Rosenthal They go around, they meet everybody in the valley.
- ▶ 3:29:27 Ben Gilbert I think for those of us who weren't in Silicon Valley, that's what it meant to be successful at Silicon Valley, was to become Google.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:51 Ben Gilbert What types of companies you should be building with computers if she was in the Silicon Valley at that point.
- ▶ 43:05 Ben Gilbert Almost the only way in which Epic intersected with Silicon Valley in the entire company's history.
TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- ▶ 32:08 Morris Chang I'm coming to Silicon Valley next week on this date.
- ▶ 1:42:28 Morris Chang So I emailed Jeff and asked for an appointment as I was coming to the Silicon Valley anyway, which was pretty normal.
- ▶ 2:28:08 David Rosenthal It's like if Silicon Valley were all in one, you know, kind of government sponsored, you know, industrial park, uh, which it sort of was, it was Silicon Valley, you know, as we talked about in our Lockheed Martin episode.
- ▶ 2:29:53 David Rosenthal My plane felt like the semiconductor version of the tech buses that go from, you know, San Francisco down to Silicon Valley every day.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 18:49 David Rosenthal Or to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 18:52 David Rosenthal So we talk a lot about, you know, Fairchild and the Trader's Eight, Silicon Valley, blah, blah, blah, you know, the place to be.
- ▶ 19:01 David Rosenthal Silicon Valley is all marketing.
- ▶ 19:28 David Rosenthal Now, Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley, but then it was, yeah, okay, California, I don't know, West Coast, whatever, like TI was the big incumbent.
- ▶ 39:21 David Rosenthal And this is when Silicon Valley in California takes over.
- ▶ 40:11 David Rosenthal And you know, the culture at TI, as shown by Morris's experience, was not like Trader Estate, Silicon Valley, you leave.
- ▶ 49:37 David Rosenthal oh, we're gonna build the next Silicon Valley in XYZ, and we're gonna recruit some former Silicon Valley person to come do that, and it's gonna work.
- ▶ 1:02:47 David Rosenthal Like, this is so the opposite of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 2:18:54 David Rosenthal Like, Intel, Silicon Valley, the traders say, like, all of it.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:51 David Rosenthal Now, Friendster was based out here in Silicon Valley, had raised money from Kleiner Perkins.
- ▶ 44:04 David Rosenthal And during Christmas break, he had actually come out to Silicon Valley, to the Bay Area, to hang out with some friends out here, and
- ▶ 53:12 David Rosenthal Contrast that with an approach of something like Friendster, that's default open to everybody, backed by Silicon Valley venture dollars, trying to grow, they're doing marketing.
- ▶ 1:06:44 David Rosenthal Let's go rent a house out in Palo Alto, move to Silicon Valley, and work on Facebook there for the summer.
- ▶ 1:07:09 Ben Gilbert Mark and Dustin and Chris and everyone who moves out, they are there to work on a project that they think is cool and seems to be working and get exposure to Silicon Valley
- ▶ 1:17:22 David Rosenthal You're now out here in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:20:48 David Rosenthal And the whole Silicon Valley machinery really can help us, but we're gonna do it in the right way on our terms.
- ▶ 1:22:35 David Rosenthal So to the investors that Sean goes out and helps them find, Sean at this point knows basically everybody in Silicon Valley, and he's like,
- ▶ 1:26:02 David Rosenthal And of course, PayPal has its own crazy history where you can understand why Peter would arrive at this conclusion, but he really was, like, maybe the only person in Silicon Valley that hit that Venn diagram that I talked about a minute…
- ▶ 2:06:10 David Rosenthal The best funded startup in the valley.
- ▶ 2:46:24 David Rosenthal So, except maybe the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, because this just, like, breaks everyone's brain.
- ▶ 6:06:54 David Rosenthal Silicon Valley's so much bigger, and there's so much more investment, and there's so many more VCs and all that.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 24:05 Daniel Ek I think pretty much every great entrepreneur in the valley tried to do a music startup.
- ▶ 1:08:55 David Rosenthal Well, ok, so speaking of, we're here in San Francisco, in Silicon Valley, the tech and AI capital of the world.
- ▶ 1:24:11 Mark Zuckerberg When, when, so, I started Facebook in school, came out to Silicon Valley with Dustin and, and a handful of people working on it at the time, and we did that because Silicon Valley's where all the startups came from, and I remember we got…
- ▶ 1:30:10 Mark Zuckerberg I, I observed as soon as I came out to the valley, that all these companies that called themselves technology companies were not really set up that way, right?
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 15:55 Mark Zuckerberg When, when, so, I started Facebook in school, came out to Silicon Valley with Dustin and, and a handful of people working on it at the time, and we did that because Silicon Valley is where all the startups came from, and I remember we got…
- ▶ 21:56 Mark Zuckerberg I, I observed as soon as I came out to the valley, that all these companies that called themselves technology companies were not really set up that way, right?
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:51 David Rosenthal And of course, their founder and chairman was legendary in Silicon Valley, one Jim Clark.
- ▶ 20:05 David Rosenthal Jim Clark, legendary founder of SGI, Silicon Valley legend.
- ▶ 2:38:13 David Rosenthal And they've been doing this for years across thousands of startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:14 Ben Gilbert And they've been doing this now for years across thousands of startups from Silicon Valley and everywhere else.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:07 David Rosenthal Silicon Valley is still dominated by Lockheed.
- ▶ 1:19:12 Ben Gilbert He said it basically came down to Seattle or Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:19:17 Ben Gilbert And in Silicon Valley, it's hard to keep secrets because there's a rumor mill.
- ▶ 1:19:26 Ben Gilbert And two, in Silicon Valley, people switch around companies.
- ▶ 1:19:45 David Rosenthal They recruit from Silicon Valley too.
- ▶ 2:16:08 David Rosenthal I've heard it characterized as something like, Xerox hosted a picnic in Silicon Valley, and Steve Jobs attended and dined lavishly at the feast.
- ▶ 2:25:35 David Rosenthal And they've been doing this now for years across thousands of startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
- ▶ 4:06:56 David Rosenthal It's like the most Silicon Valley trophy thing ever.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 46:22 David Rosenthal You know, we used to talk about this on old acquired episodes that in the early days of Silicon Valley, there were only 10 people out here and they all knew each other and they were all doing the same thing.
- ▶ 2:23:07 David Rosenthal You're not in Silicon Valley.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:09:15 David Rosenthal But two, and this is gonna be such a fun story to tell here on Acquired, because it's a huge part of Silicon Valley history that we've never touched.
- ▶ 1:10:32 Ben Gilbert But what you may not know is ServiceNow is also an incredible Silicon Valley startup story that ranks right up there with Google, Facebook, NVIDIA, Genentech as one of the best venture investments of all time.
- ▶ 1:11:06 Ben Gilbert Yeah, this is like, uh, Nolan Bushnell Atari-era Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:11:16 David Rosenthal He really was part of that original technical crew like Waz and others that formed the backbone of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:18:11 David Rosenthal I mean, we weren't even alive, but this was one of, if not the most important announcement to come out of Silicon Valley ever still to this day.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:11:46 David Rosenthal I mean, Dee basically is the prototypical Silicon Valley founder.
- ▶ 1:11:55 Ben Gilbert I once had a Silicon Valley founder give a talk at a startup weekend I ran, 1012 years ago, who said, until your company shuts down, you are just in the act of succeeding.
- ▶ 1:44:07 David Rosenthal It's a Silicon Valley company.
- ▶ 1:56:19 David Rosenthal Even though they're based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, these aren't tech folks.
- ▶ 1:58:05 David Rosenthal You can see it right off of one-on-one as you're driving between San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 3:13:54 David Rosenthal And right here in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 3:13:58 Ben Gilbert A success story out of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 3:14:07 David Rosenthal This is a Silicon Valley company.
- ▶ 3:14:49 David Rosenthal It's funny, though, that, like, you would think it would have bled more into the Silicon Valley world, but it really hasn't.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 17:58 David Rosenthal The technology companies here in Silicon Valley, particularly the social media companies, they were just realizing huge economic value out of this, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Netflixes, et cetera.
- ▶ 18:13 David Rosenthal But during those couple of years, when you saw just that huge economic value unlock here in Silicon Valley, how are you feeling during those times?
- ▶ 1:14:24 Jensen Huang In my estimation, one of the most important companies that ever came to Silicon Valley and changed everything about how computers were made.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:25 David Rosenthal When a few people in Silicon Valley start to realize that this Google, Facebook, AI duopoly is actually a really, really big problem.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:03 David Rosenthal The second one, I'm not going to say what it is so we don't spoil it just yet, but as a teaser, it's unbelievable and is directly tied in to the birth of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 43:28 David Rosenthal We are gonna have a lot more tech in Silicon Valley and Apple stuff that's gonna come up here in just a little bit.
- ▶ 57:11 Ben Gilbert But before we do that, we want to take you to Northern California and the origins of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 1:02:38 David Rosenthal They didn't exist before, and then MIT and Harvard, very fortunately for California and Silicon Valley, shut them down after the war.
- ▶ 1:05:13 David Rosenthal I just thought it was like, oh, well, that's because Stanford and Silicon Valley, like, we get it.
- ▶ 1:05:17 David Rosenthal Not that we're smarter, but there's this attitude of, you know, if you're in Silicon Valley, even to this day, you're like,
- ▶ 1:08:10 David Rosenthal This is really fun Silicon Valley history.
- ▶ 1:08:23 David Rosenthal Customer who would go on to become the single largest employer in the area in proto-Silicon Valley by a huge margin.
- ▶ 1:08:52 David Rosenthal And what LMSC, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, did, I honestly think, like, it is bigger impact to the country, to the world, and certainly on business to Lockheed and to Silicon Valley than Skunk Works.
- ▶ 1:09:17 David Rosenthal They patterned themselves after Skunk Works and took so many of the Skunk Works management principles up to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:09:26 David Rosenthal oh yeah, so many of these principles, they sound like Silicon Valley principles.
- ▶ 1:12:52 David Rosenthal In this brand new proto Silicon Valley.
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