The Code
Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara
Recommended by Scott Kupor and Richard Florida
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Silicon Valley, Technology, and Business.
The true, behindthescenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the Americanled digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firstha...
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Scott Kupor
“@RobAtkinsonITIF @MargRev They do. Interesting thing is nearly all those things when they worked most effectively undergirded local ecosystems like Silicon Valley. O'Mara's new book The Code is masterful on this. National policy can do even more on this front. | @davidu @Ranikubersky @fredwilson @scmallaby Another really interesting book for those interested in the history of Silicon Valley is The Code by @margaretomara”
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