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Silicon Valley is the staple of modern American history, change my mind.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:41 pm
I know there are a lot of "Bad hippie muh liberal crowd on this site" but its incredible what those guys over there have been able to do for modern day America. Look at these companies and imagine a US if these companies never existed.
Apple & Google - Changed our lives forever.
PayPal, Venmo, Cash App - Changes the way we sent money.
Tesla - Introduced electric cars to the world
Microsoft & Apple - Introduced computing and changed human behavior forever.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, WhatsApp, Snapchat - Led to revolutions, marriages, relationships, a new age of receiving information and changed our interactions forever.
Dell, Intel, IBM, -
Palantir, Bing, Google, Yahoo - Changed how we received information forever.
Apple Music, Itunes, Pandora, Spotify - Changed entertainment and music consumption forever.
Airbnb, Uber, Lyft - Changed transportation and living forever, disrupted the dominant taxi and travel industry.
Space X, Blue Origin, Hyper Loop - Disrupting Space forever.
Netflix, Hulu, Streaming TV - Changed our TV consumption forever, disrupted traditional cable.
Doordash, Grubhub - You know...
Linkedin, Dropbox, Tinder, Apple Mapx, Facetime, Siri, Alexa, Twitch, Zillow, Pintrest, Whatsapp. These are all SV contributions to the world.
And Amazon, eBay.... well you know the rest is history.
I don't even mention Ndividia that changed the way you game, Oracle, Cisco, Stripe, and others.
Arguably SV has led to the greatest creation of wealth in history.
For those of you that invested.
SV has been bad, but its hard to argue the impact that it has had on modern American culture.
I bet a product made in that area consumes about 80% of users on this site everyday activities, hell
Apple & Google - Changed our lives forever.
PayPal, Venmo, Cash App - Changes the way we sent money.
Tesla - Introduced electric cars to the world
Microsoft & Apple - Introduced computing and changed human behavior forever.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, WhatsApp, Snapchat - Led to revolutions, marriages, relationships, a new age of receiving information and changed our interactions forever.
Dell, Intel, IBM, -
Palantir, Bing, Google, Yahoo - Changed how we received information forever.
Apple Music, Itunes, Pandora, Spotify - Changed entertainment and music consumption forever.
Airbnb, Uber, Lyft - Changed transportation and living forever, disrupted the dominant taxi and travel industry.
Space X, Blue Origin, Hyper Loop - Disrupting Space forever.
Netflix, Hulu, Streaming TV - Changed our TV consumption forever, disrupted traditional cable.
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Comparing valuations: Netflix: $166 billion Sony CBS Viacom $166 billion Discovery (combined) Fox Corp AMC Networks DISH Network
Doordash, Grubhub - You know...
Linkedin, Dropbox, Tinder, Apple Mapx, Facetime, Siri, Alexa, Twitch, Zillow, Pintrest, Whatsapp. These are all SV contributions to the world.
And Amazon, eBay.... well you know the rest is history.
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Number of Amazon employees: (worldwide) 2018: 647,500 2017: 566,000
I don't even mention Ndividia that changed the way you game, Oracle, Cisco, Stripe, and others.
Arguably SV has led to the greatest creation of wealth in history.
For those of you that invested.
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Netflix: +6,800% Expedia: +2,363% Nvidia: +2,071% Amazon: +3,208% Apple: +1,840% Salesforce: +1,957% S&P 500: +450%
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Combined valuations of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix & Google: 2019: $3.4 trillion
SV has been bad, but its hard to argue the impact that it has had on modern American culture.
I bet a product made in that area consumes about 80% of users on this site everyday activities, hell
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Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:42 pm to agregime1
That’s a lot of words
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:43 pm to agregime1
I’d take the Bay Area over Hollywood or Beverly Hills. frick that place.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:46 pm to agregime1
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Silicon Valley is to blame for the downfall of the greatest society in world history, change my mind.
Fixed
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:46 pm to agregime1
It doesn’t reflect modern America at all
Very little national pride and national identity in Silicon Valley. The people there see themselves as global citizens
Demographics don’t reflect America
Type of economy doesn’t reflect America
Politics don’t reflect America
Wayyyyy richer and more out of touch than America as a whole
Very little national pride and national identity in Silicon Valley. The people there see themselves as global citizens
Demographics don’t reflect America
Type of economy doesn’t reflect America
Politics don’t reflect America
Wayyyyy richer and more out of touch than America as a whole
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
These very companies that the OP mentioned are responsible for the local housing market that basically kicks people out of their own cities and states. Most of these peeps located in these cities are liberals and yet they blame everyone else but the large liberal companies like Google and alot of those other silicon valley companies.
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:53 pm to agregime1
Yeah but what about waitr
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:54 pm to agregime1
Adapt or don’t exist anymore.
Like Silicon Valley, another valley will rise and kick Silicon Valley out of existence in the near future, it’s just simple business cycle.
Like Silicon Valley, another valley will rise and kick Silicon Valley out of existence in the near future, it’s just simple business cycle.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 1:55 pm to agregime1
Yeah I'm a simpleton, so I'm not fricking reading all that
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:00 pm to agregime1
American Agriculture (food) is more important than all that shite
Imagine the US with no food. Mind changed
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Look at these companies and imagine a US if these companies never existed.
Imagine the US with no food. Mind changed
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:01 pm to agregime1
I don't think you understand what some of the words in your subject title mean.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:08 pm to agregime1
Actually, colonial imperialism as the ultimate evil and white man bad are the staples of modern American "history" .
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:13 pm to agregime1
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Tesla - Introduced electric cars to the world
The first electric car was built in the 1830s and the GM EV1 was mid to late 1990s
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:24 pm to agregime1
Lotta dumb in the OP...
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:35 pm to agregime1
Posted on 8/17/19 at 2:40 pm to agregime1
Posted on 8/18/19 at 5:44 am to soccerfüt
The Silicon Valley factories which pumped out computers and flat screens were mostly built by Louisiana educated instrument techs with contractors based in the Baton Rouge area. The engineering had mostly come from AT&T and Bell labs in upstate NY.
Most of the manufacturing processes had come from petrochemical company R&D labs looking for markets that they could sell chemicals to which had no other markets. They were developed in places like South Charleston WV, Midland, MI and Wilmington, DE.
Most of the manufacturing processes had come from petrochemical company R&D labs looking for markets that they could sell chemicals to which had no other markets. They were developed in places like South Charleston WV, Midland, MI and Wilmington, DE.
Posted on 8/18/19 at 6:29 am to agregime1
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modern American history
What's this?
Posted on 8/18/19 at 7:17 am to CitizenK
I imagine today Silicon Valley isn’t wealthy from manufacturing. Silicon Valley is where all the IP in all your cool gadgets comes from, all the IP that supports it, and IP that no normal person would ever know or be aware of. Point being most of the stuff “manufactured” in Silicon Valley is computer code (intellectual property)
And a bunch of financial/VC bros chasing the money
And a bunch of financial/VC bros chasing the money
This post was edited on 8/18/19 at 7:22 am
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