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The Birth of Silicon Valley

Steve Blank, Stanford University

Steve Blank, who teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford in the Department of Management Science & Engineering, describes how scientific research during the Cold War kicked off an era of transformation in the surrounding valley from farming to a focus on defense technology. Blank, one of the founders of the lean-startup movement, cites the arrival of Lockheed as the moment the region turned into Silicon Valley.