Over the past few decades and especially since the turn of the 21st century, technology has been increasing by leaps and bounds, resulting in the establishment of the tech industry, which has upended the dominance of traditional industries such as pharma, finance or construction. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 biggest companies that originated in Silicon Valley. My recommendation is for technology entrepreneurs to read the book.In this article we are going to list the 15 biggest companies that originated in Silicon Valley.
AT&T called the network of infrastructure that made phones work “the cloud”, which is different from today’s popular term.At the 1991 COMDEX show in Las Vegas it cost $53,000 to rent a small private room off the main hall plus $1,000 to have it vacuumed and $150 for electricity.GO had a closet at their office configured by IBM security personnel for IBM confidential files that had a key only the GO CEO had and they even went as far as to put chicken-wire above the ceiling tiles to block someone trying to get in, which, of course, is ridiculous.The issues of weight, battery life, screen, and memory back then are all the same issues of today.The original idea for the GO tablet in the late 1980s was for a large screen with one single button, much like the iPad is today.Participating preferred stock 15 years ago was as poorly understood as it is today.
Jerry recounts the story of founding GO Corporation, the first pen computing company, and the wild ride of burning through $75 million dollars before a forced merger with another company and a final sale to AT&T. I just finished reading Jerry Kaplan’s book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure from 1996 and I must say it is one of the best entrepreneur books I’ve read in a long time. Cover of Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
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