I think it could have something to do with the openness of silicon valley. For example, california banned non-compete agreements.
Boston was used to the corporate mindset where information is an asset that can't be shared. That free flow of information in silicon valley made innovation progress much faster.
"The boston area was organized around these big, vertically integrated minicomputer companies — dec, data general. They were classic postwar american companies, with vertical hierarchies and career ladders. Planning and research happened at the top of the organization and then funneled down. Whereas in silicon valley you had, really by chance not design, a series of flat companies, with project-based teams that moved around. People moved between companies much more fluidly. At a time that technology and know-how were sort of trapped within the vertically integrated companies of route 128, they were being continually recombined in silicon valley. That gave them a real edge in innovation."
Yeah I loved that video. The radio tower image in that other article you referenced is because this was the technology worked on in the war that lead to all of these ideas. And you do have a fair point. There were many factors that lead to the settlement of Silicon Valley and why all the talent wound up there.
However for me I what I really wanted to know about in silicon valley is less lead-up, and more the development and the technical innovation.
I fixed that statement you mentioned about Arthur Rock to specify it was the first private firm. Definitely a good distinction. Super interesting that Arthur Rock was a student of George Doriot.
George Doriot was the first person to take advantage of SBICs (government funded small business investment companies) that was created by the SBA to encourage more entrepreneurship. Where I think Arthur Rock was particularly innovative was that he raised all of this money from wealthy individuals looking to do private investing. While I agree the VC industry wouldn't have been started if it wasn't for Doriot, I think private money being used to fund startups is really the inflection point in the industry. Government money can't last forever.
They segment users that visited each product on Facebook with a custom audience and then create ads for similar products that they show you. This is all done programmatically.
I was just curious. I wanted to see what people on hacker news were reading. I am sorry about all of that from a while ago. I realized I was taking too many shortcuts and deleted everything that I shouldn't have posted from that account.
I'd think outside just people on atom/slack. Think about who they are as a person as a whole. ie. What do these people do when they are bored, what type of content do these people read, what platforms do they frequent, etc...
Once you understand your user as a person (keep in mind they are probably pretty similar to you) then it will be very easy to know where to find them. Just because it's a slack based application doesn't mean you have to get them from slack.