Silicon Valley Is Not a Fad

The region was a hub for innovation long before tech bros showed up

Duncan Riach
OneZero
Published in
8 min readMay 15, 2019

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InIn the late 2000s, at a party in the Mission District of San Francisco, I was discussing Silicon Valley with a guy who worked for a technology company. When I revealed that I lived in Mountain View, he asked me where that was.

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Duncan Riach
OneZero

Top Writer. Self-Revealing. Mental Health. Success. Fulfillment. Flow. MS Engineering/Technology. PhD Psychology. duncanriach.com