How to Be Silicon Valley

May 2006

(This essay is derived from a keynote at Xtech.)

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something
unique about it?

It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other
countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US
either. What does it take to make a silicon valley even here?

What it takes is the right people. If you could get the right ten
thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo
would become Silicon Valley.
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