Tech Talk: Steve Blank — “The Secret History of Silicon Valley: How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today”
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ABSTRACT
How much does an average engineer know about the history of the place he/she works in---Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. Silicon Valley entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.
BIOGRAPHY
After 21 years in 8 high technology companies, Steve retired in 1999. He co-founded his last company, E.piphany, in his living room in 1996. His other startups include two semiconductor companies, Zilog and MIPS Computers, a workstation company Convergent Technologies, a consulting stint for a graphics hardware/software spinout Pixar, a supercomputer firm, Ardent, a computer peripheral supplier, SuperMac, a military intelligence systems supplier, ESL and a video game company, Rocket Science Games.
Steve moved from being an entrepreneur to teaching entrepreneurship to both undergraduate and graduate students at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University and the Columbia University/Berkeley Joint Executive MBA program. In 2009, he was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering. The same year, the San Jose Mercury News listed him as one of the "10 Influencers in Silicon Valley". In 2010, Steve was awarded the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business.
In 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Steve to serve on the California Coastal Commission, the public body which regulates land use and public access on the California coast. In 2009, he became a trustee of U.C. Santa Cruz and joined the board of the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV). In 2010, Steve was appointed to the Expert Advisory Panel for the California Ocean Protection Council.
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