{"id":999,"date":"2007-10-21T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/silicon-valley-doesn%c2%b4t-exist-do-not-read-this-if-you-live-in-silicon-valley.html"},"modified":"2007-10-21T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T20:47:10","slug":"silicon-valley-doesn%c2%b4t-exist-do-not-read-this-if-you-live-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley doesn\u00b4t exist (do not read this if you live in Silicon Valley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Silicon Valley doesn\u00b4t exist.  If you live in Europe as I do and you dream of going to Silicon Valley as I used to, let me warn you now, there is no such place as Silicon Valley.   Before starting <a href=\"http:\/\/fon.com\">Fon<\/a>, and having so many friends and partners in Silicon Valley including famous Silicon Valley VCs Sequoia and famous Silicon Valley tech companies eBay and Google, I thought there was actually a place that Silicon Valley as much as there is a place as New York City.  But if you go to Google Maps and you input Silicon Valley you will see that no concrete location comes up.  So how can so many people refer to a place that not only does not exist but that nobody really knows where it begins and ends, and frequently confuse it with a more generic &#8220;Bay Area&#8221;, which also people disagree as to where it begins and ends but it seems to encompass Silicon Valley plus other undefined places.\u00a0 After spending a week in Silicon Valley visiting companies in Cupertino, Mountain View, friends in Los Altos Hills, and different neighborhoods of San Francisco I think that it is time somebody tells the\u00a0 the rest of the world what Silicon Valley is\u00a0 an imaginary concept and not a geography.\u00a0 Silicon Valley is a dream,\u00a0 it is a trait as in &#8220;silicon valley creativity&#8221;, or a personality &#8220;silicon valley attitude&#8221;,  or a career &#8220;silicon valley entrepreneur&#8221;.  In short, Silicon Valley is a lot of things and yet none of them are an actual geography.<\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=999\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley doesn\u00b4t exist. If you live in Europe as I do and you dream of going to Silicon Valley as I used to, let me warn you now, there is no such place as Silicon Valley. Before starting Fon, and having so many friends and partners in Silicon Valley including famous Silicon Valley VCs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}