Silicon Valley's Open Secret: How Networks Beat Legacy Tech

Silicon Valley's dominance isn't accidental. This article contrasts its rise with that of Boston's Route 128, highlighting Silicon Valley's open networks, dynamic culture, and thriving venture capital as key differentiators. Unlike Boston's large, secretive tech firms, Silicon Valley fosters talent mobility, information sharing, and experimental innovation, creating a powerful synergistic effect. The author uses the example of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) to illustrate the power of open networks, showing how even regions with excellent universities and research institutions, like Boston, struggle to compete without a similarly open ecosystem.