Steve Blank

Serial Entrepreneur and Academic

Computer History Museum

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

History & Humanities

Standalone talks by Steve Blank

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

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History·Public Colloquium

The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Steve Blank·Computer History Museum

This lecture traces the origins of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship to the covert technological imperatives of World War II and the Cold War, positing government agencies as the initial venture capitalists that fostered early innovation.