Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley

[jmorin007]

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/01/steve-blanks-se.html

[curi]

someone recently said wars create wealth. i think the statistic of 40,000 allied planes destroyed in WWII, while the present day commercial fleet is only 15,000 planes, is a pretty good refutation. it gives a sense of the scale of how much was destroyed.