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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 12:06 David Senra So he says, when I was running PayPal in late 1999, I was scared out of my wits because it seemed like everyone else in the valley was ready to believe anything at all.
- ▶ 39:00 David Senra At the time, uh, you know, they're in Silicon Valley, and they interview, the book is essentially transcripts of, I think, 16 interviews with technology company founders at the time.
- ▶ 44:16 David Senra Silicon Valley underrates it more than most.
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 7:52 David Senra It is not by coincidence that he has chosen to remain in London, far from Silicon Valley's hype and commotion.
- ▶ 20:48 David Senra Britain had no equivalent to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 46:47 David Senra His improbable leap from game design to neuroscience, Demas was far more original and far more of a contrarian than most of the self-identified contrarians of Silicon Valley.
How SpaceX Works
- ▶ 30:37 David Senra What Elon grafted onto it were Silicon Valley operating norms, flat hierarchy, engineer ownership, permission to walk out of unproductive meetings.
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 5:51 David Senra It's the exact equivalent of like the Silicon Valley
- ▶ 45:35 David Senra Beginning of Silicon Valley.
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 5:18 David Senra And so he gives this analogy of what everybody else in Silicon Valley is doing and what he wanted to try to do with Oracle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:35 David Senra Silicon Valley is a killing field. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:54 David Senra The one dissenting voice said that he thought Oracle had more potential than any other company in the valley.
- ▶ 40:02 David Senra If you work in Silicon Valley long enough, you can't help but notice how much the technology industry resembles the women's clothing business.
- ▶ 50:29 David Senra He repeats over and over again, Silicon Valley is a killing field.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 30:23 David Senra It was this very entrepreneurial Silicon Valley way of thinking that none of the aerospace engineers in Los Angeles were dialed into.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 16:10 David Senra On the early history of Silicon Valley and what it was like growing up there for the Smithsonian Institute. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:00 David Senra He's got a biography called the man behind the microchip, Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 27:25 David Senra That is how I wound up growing up in the valley. 3 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 1:28:59 David Senra And so after he leaves Disney, he starts a bunch of other companies, starts to really get interested and spend a lot of time in Silicon Valley, investment technology companies, uh, help several venture capital firms, uh,
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 21:55 David Senra It was this very entrepreneurial Silicon Valley way of thinking.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 18:27 David Senra There's a ton of examples in Steve jobs, biographies of him, knowing the entire history of Silicon Valley, knowing the companies, knowing the founders and many cases, if the founders were alive, he'd go build relationships with them.
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 0:10 David Senra It is very well known long form piece for those that study the history of the technology industry, specifically the history of Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:55 David Senra He's just got this innate confidence and charisma that no matter what period of Bob's life, whether he's a young boy or one of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, they just bring it up over and over again.
- ▶ 12:04 David Senra He is also going to be the person that recruits Bob Noyce to move from the East Coast and come out to Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 David Senra It's not even known as Silicon Valley yet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:26 David Senra It was the fair children who turned the Santa Clara Valley into Silicon Valley acre by acre. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 David Senra Now, before I go into what they wanted to build Intel, this was a hilarious part of like Silicon Valley history lore. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:58 David Senra His major role was now to become the spokesman of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 51:47 David Senra on this tangent to read this excellent piece by Tom Wolfe, The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce and How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 10:39 David Senra If you're interested in computers and softwares in the last 50 years, you're probably in Silicon Valley.
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra My professional life seemed destined to have one foot in Silicon Valley and the other in Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:58 David Senra Lucasfilm was based one hour north of Silicon Valley by car and one hour from Hollywood by plane. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 13:04 David Senra And a lot of this has spread over multiple decades, so I'm gonna read you from, he's giving this talk, uh, in 1995, and he's recording an oral history on the early history of Silicon Valley and what it was like growing up there for the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:29 David Senra His, he's got a biography called the man behind the microchip, Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:02 David Senra There's a tradition here in Silicon Valley, and many people don't spend time to learn about it.
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 3:15 David Senra And the reason I want to start here is because I think a lot of people can look at HP in its current state and not realize how important David Packard and Bill Hewlett were to the history of Silicon Valley. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:39 David Senra So before I want to get to where the founding of their company in the garage, which becomes like Silicon Valley lore, I just want to read this one paragraph that I thought was fascinating.
- ▶ 17:41 David Senra In 1989, so 50 years later, the state of California designated that garage as a California historical landmark and the birthplace of Silicon Valley.
Working With Steve Jobs
- ▶ 33:59 David Senra Mostly, we avoided falling into any of the typical product development traps common in Silicon Valley.
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 48:57 David Senra When I got to that page, made me think of something, uh, Max Levchin said, uh, my, in that book, uh, The Founders, which is a story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley, written by my friend, Jimmy Soni. 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 10:18 David Senra It's called the founders, the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:02 David Senra And so then he continues, the overwhelming importance of future profits is counterintuitive even in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 51:16 David Senra And it's harder than it looks in Silicon Valley.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 44:18 David Senra It's called The Entire History of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 56:38 David Senra I would work closely with users to make something amazing, and otherwise I would stay off of Silicon Valley's radar.
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 12:15 David Senra And this is the first time they mentioned what I feel is a main theme if you read the book, and I highly recommend you do, because not only is Jim Clark an interesting character, but it is a period piece of what was it like to be in…
- ▶ 16:52 David Senra That is happening right now, he said, right here in the valley.
- ▶ 18:47 David Senra And then it goes into a little bit about the history of Silicon Valley, which is really interesting. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:21 David Senra For the next six years, Silicon Graphics was perhaps the most successful company in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 30:19 David Senra You might be the smartest engineer in the Valley, and you might have built the most sophisticated computer, but it was only a matter of time before some schlep with a PC wrote a program that let him do everything you could do at a fraction…
- ▶ 36:08 David Senra The genealogy chart of Silicon Valley companies that decorated the walls of every office was a cheery face on a violent truth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:47 David Senra When Jim Clark decided to start a new company in 1984, I was one of about a dozen people at various Silicon Valley companies he was talking to about joining him in what became Netscape. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:33 David Senra His role in the valley was suddenly clear.
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 9:15 David Senra And it's why you and I have to study this guy says, I don't know what Silicon Valley will do.
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 8:47 David Senra The area is now called Silicon Valley. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 David Senra He starts going around Silicon Valley and one phone call after another, he's like, I'm going to find people that can help me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 David Senra Basically, I got to know these guys who were all company builders, and the particular scent of Silicon Valley at that time made a very big impression on me.
- ▶ 1:16:18 David Senra I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.