Jose Ferreira Quotes

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

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

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

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

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.

I love everyone on 'Silicon Valley.'

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

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

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

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

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

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

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

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages.

A lot of the books that have been written about Silicon Valley are really good. Michael Malone's books are incredible. I think his 'Infinite Loop' is the best book that's been written about Apple.