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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. As I point out in my video. Laughable now.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. We use QR codes to simplify the process. 62% look at online peer reviews. We read increasingly using our digital devices.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

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