1. venture capital pyramid schemes,
2. adware privacy-invading nightmares,
3. the next "x" with "x" being some successful social network that they want to make even worse so it can be monetized more easily,
4. buildings in which executives and managers sit, controlling far-flung centers of innovation where actual work happens, and
5. whatever HP is vomiting out next quarter
Innovation has moved elsewhere.
You don't believe me. I know you don't.
The executives, sales, and marketing folks currently driving Intel into the ground are in Santa Clara. The engineers trying to save it are in Oregon, Colorado, and overseas.
Speaking of Intel much of the Zen microarchitecture was done at Austin, and Colorado, and India. Not silicon valley.
Of course, Apple is still there, somewhat. Getting someone on HN to say Apple is innovative would make my day!
People in Oregon, Texas, Colorado, North Carolina, and elsewhere are building the future.
People in Silicon Valley are trying to figure out the best way to squeeze people in order to wring dollar bills out of them.
Does't mean that innovation isn't happening elsewhere but SV still leads in raw talent density in everything related to computing.
Neuman produced a cult that generated a beautiful pyramid scheme for those who got out early. From a VC point of view, the only issue was that VC's didn't have enough of a collar on Neuman to be able to shove him aside when he became a liability. I'm sure that mistake has been corrected.
Anyone who thinks VCs are anything other than self-interested sociopaths hasn't been paying attention.
This is already not the case and the article very clearly highlights this, if you had bothered to read it.
I don't particularly care for the NYT, but I've found that people with overly simplistic and hyper-narrow views of the world have become more common in silicon valley in the last 8 or so years. Chances are the reason for this is exactly what the article calls out, silicon valley was once about technology and innovation, it is now about business. It hence attracts business people and has changed the general populace of it quite a bit.
> I don't care what culture it has as long as it respects the Constitution and the laws of the land
You know that there are people outside America right? The "constitution" is not a global concept, but Silicon Valley cannot thrive without globalization.