1. Silicon Valley History and Innovation
Javed Mohammed
Innovation and Marketing Consultant
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2. There are many hi-tech hubs in world
• Boston “Route 128”
• Bangalore, India
• Silicon Wadi, Israel
• Silicon Glen, Scotland
• But there is only one original, Silicon Valley
20. Silicon Valley Fast Facts
• Silicon Valley Residents: 2.5 Million
• 15 cities in Santa Clara county
• But Silicon Valley keeps growing
• Valley now made up of 5 Counties
– Santa Clara County
– San Mateo County
– Alameda County
– Contra Costa County
– Marin County
• The Valley continues to grow in all directions
http://next10.org/sites/next10.org/files/silicon%20valley%20econ%20
snapshot.pdf
21. Silicon Valley Top 10
1. Hewlett-Packard
2. Apple
3. Intel
4. Cisco
5. Oracle
6. Google
7. Applied Materials
8. Synnex
9. eBay
10.Gilead Science
As of Jan 2013
http://www.mercurynews.com/sv150
37. However, Silicon Valley is not paradise
• Since 2003, the region lost more than 300,000
jobs. Nearly 120,000 jobs were lost in 2010
• Offshoring & Outsourcing major trend
• Started with moving low end functions like Mass
Production, Quality Assurance, Call centers and
other job functions
• Now moving higher end to research, R&D, design,
back office, marketing, legal, healthcare
• There are no sacred cows.
http://techtalk.dice.com/t5/Silicon-Valley/White-Caucasian-men-the-
new-minority-in-Silicon-Valley-IT/td-p/289082
38. Mckinsey expects global market
for offshore business and technology services to grow
to about $500B by 2020, from the current $80B/yr
http://www.mckinsey.de/downloads/publikation/mck_on_bt/2009/mck_on
_bt_16_india.pdf
http://www.ibsgr.com/our-business/key-facts-and-figures/our-markets.aspx
39. Big Demographic shift, causing
underlying tension and ethnic enclaves.
• White Caucasians the new minority in Silicon
Valley IT (Non-white 63%)
• Latinos and Black poorly represented in high
wage, hi-tech paying jobs
• White 37%, Asian 30%, Latino 27%, Black 2%,
Other 4%
http://techtalk.dice.com/t5/Silicon-Valley/White-Caucasian-men-the-
new-minority-in-Silicon-Valley-IT/td-p/289082
40. 52% of startups founded by
Immigrants
Venture Beats graph
http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/15/how-indians-defied-gravity-and-
achieved-success-in-silicon-valley/
41. High cost of living makes valley
unaffordable to those not making a
living wage
Family of four needs to make a min of $80,000 to survive
http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/the-
minimum-budget-the-cost-of-living-for-a-family-of-four/
42. What’s next
• Silicon Valley is more than just Hi-tech
• It is also a big hub for Bio-tech, Medical
devices, Clean-tech, Nano-tech,…
• Convergence of Hi-tech + Bio-tech + Nano-
tech,…
• Clean-tech and alternative energies
• Things we can’t predict, that’s why it is the
innovation capital of the world
43. References
• All images are from public domain and
copyright of respective owners
• William Y. Jiang: Silicon Valley Competitive
Advantage and Knowledge Transfer
• Cathy Anterasian & Jeff Hauswirth: Lessons
From Silicon Valley
• Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
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