Softwarebased startups will do much of the disrupting. Software is eating the w orld-the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has come up with a rather catchy way of describing the disruption, under way or com ing soon, to industries seemingly distant from the tech world. It’s a shame, because this place is creating everyone’s future. That’s why there can never be a Gray Line tour of Silicon Valley’s future. There are literally thousands of startups, dispersed along the sixty-mile corridor that extends between San Francisco and San Jose, but they all operate under secrecy un til they are ready to launch their first product. To glimpse what comes next in Silicon Valley, you need to see the most promising startups, not museums and historic garages. But these are ghostly places, the uninterest ing physical vestiges of startups that have long since departed. And there are the garages, of course, beginning with Hewlett and Packard’s, then Steve Jobs’s parents’, and then the rented garage that served as Google’s first off-campus office space. There’s the Computer History Museum, and Intel has a museum of its own. From a bus seat, there just isn’t much to be seen.1 Silicon Valley’s past is more accessible than its present. It offers tours of San Francisco, of Muir Woods and Sausalito or the wine country north of the city, but it no longer offers a tour of Silicon Valley, immediately south. 2012 First published in Great Britain by Portfolio Penguin 2013 001 Copyright © Randall Stross, 2012 The moral right o f the author has been asserted All rights reserved Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part o f this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission o f both the copyright owner and the above publisher o f this book Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic A C IP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library i s b n : 9 7 8 -0 -6 7 0 -9 2 34 9 -6į o r R e b e c c a, M a r tin, J a c o b, a n d A lexĥ C R A Z Y BUT NO RMAL 56 6 U N S E XY 67Ģ1 S OFTW ARE IS EATING TH E WORLD 227 Acknowledgments 241 Appendix: The Summer 2011 Batch 245 Notes 251 Index 269Īn Francisco Gray Line is the largest sightseeing tour company in Northern California. Penguin Group (Australia), 707 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3008, Australia (a division o f Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Com munity Centre, Panchsheel Park, N ew Delhi - n o 017, India Penguin Group (N Z), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, N ew Zealand (a division o f Pearson N ew Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, Block D, Rosebank Office Park, 181 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown North, Gauteng 2193, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:įirst published in the United States o f America by Portfolio/Penguin, a member o f Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Ireland (a division o f Penguin Books Ltd) (a division o f Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, P O RTF OL IO P ENGUI N Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd,. THE LAUNCH PAD Inside Y Combinator, Silicon V a l l e y ’s Most Ex c l u si v e Sehool for St a rt u p s He has a PhD in history from Stanford University. The Launch Pad Randall Stross is the author of several acclaimed books, including eB oysy Planet G oogle and The Wizard o f M enlo Par\.
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