> But unlike companies like Google and Amazon who rigorously hired based on college degrees, GPAs and standardized test scores, Facebook and the companies that have spun out of it have hewed toward sheer, raw, hacker-like genius.
One of the best articles I've read by Sarah Lacy (I wish she would write more big picture stuff like this) and it's on TechCrunch! It would be a very interesting visualization to build a Silicon Valley family tree from Fairchild Semiconductor to HP to Xerox PARC to present day. Maybe that is one of the reasons Silicon Valley can't be duplicated - and is one of the most unique business locations on the planet - everyone is virtual cousins or 2nd cousins with everyone else. All in the (extended) family.
There is no doubt that Sarah Lacy is the best writer on the TechCrunch staff. This was an awesome piece which in the old days would have been a magazine cover or a New Yorker Article.
One of the best articles I've read by Sarah Lacy (I wish she would write more big picture stuff like this) and it's on TechCrunch! It would be a very interesting visualization to build a Silicon Valley family tree from Fairchild Semiconductor to HP to Xerox PARC to present day. Maybe that is one of the reasons Silicon Valley can't be duplicated - and is one of the most unique business locations on the planet - everyone is virtual cousins or 2nd cousins with everyone else. All in the (extended) family.