I mentioned in a recent post – Birth and Death of Silicon Valley ? – the book Making Silicon Valley – Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 by Christophe Lécuyer. I had bought that book many years ago and had only read some parts of it. Because Olivier Alexandre (see my posts about […]
At a time when Silicon Valley seems more powerful than ever, with GAFAs and others reaching values difficult to imagine just a few years ago, at a time when Artificial Intelligence seems to scare many and fascinate others with huge fund raising for openAI ($10B) or Inflection AI ($1B) [not to forget smaller French Mistral […]
I very seldom read books twice, and had never done it with business books. This is the exception. I had blogged about this book here back in 2019. I remembered strong elements of good coaching but had not mentioned them. Here they finally come! Campbell does not talk much, does not give advice but asks […]
I had published in the past genealogies (time maps) of Silicon Valley startups and venture capital. Here they are again: Genealogy of Silicon Valley startups (1957-1986) Genealogy of West Coast Venture Capital (1958-1983) But there have been other (“artistic”) maps, strangely in the 80s also. Here are three similar versions from 1983-1986. Maps of Silicon […]
Silicon Valley will soon be 65. 65? Yes, I usually say that the region began its growth with the foundation of Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 (even if the name itself was created in 1971). The region is increasingly criticized for both good and bad reasons (see for example here and there) and perhaps it is […]
Munich in April 2023 Fontainebleau in March 2023 Ile de la Réunion in December 2022 Potosi in 2022 including the so much waited for 4000th invasion Rennes second wave – May 2021 Ljubljana second wave – March 2021 Marseille – August 2020 Djerba – November 2019 Versailles – May 2019 for the 12th wave
About 15 years ago, I was challenged by a colleague, who knew my passion about Silicon Valley, about why the region should survive and lead for the years or even decades to come. I had just arrived at EPFL and now that I am leaving this place where there are many people I love, I […]
A second post about the excellent Technocritiques – Du refus des machines à la contestation des technosciences after that one: Techno-critics according to François Jarrige. Jarrige surprises me by giving Gandhi‘s views on technology. Fascinating. I (in Fact Goodle translate was a great supporting tool…) translated his full account that you could read in French […]
I must thank here first Bogdan Ceobanu from the European Commission. After spending a few hours discussing the challenges (and opportunities) of innovation in Europe, he sent me his copy of The Rainforest – The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley by Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt. Bogdan is one of the leading […]
I should have begun with Genentech this series of posts about Biotech (see part 1: Amgen or part 2 about more general stats). Genentech was not the first biotech start-up, it was Cetus, but Genentech was really the one which launched and defined this industry. All this really began with the Cohen Boyer collaboration. Genentech […]