Aileen Lee Quotes

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

New Mexico should be a tech jobs leader and a haven for innovation, a place where the best and the brightest come to bring their products to market.

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.

San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.

L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.

There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.