For most people, the image of a tech startup follows a typical script: brilliant college dropouts in a Palo Alto garage, pitch meetings with venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, and eventually a triumphant IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York. Silicon Valley has been the undisputed capital of the tech world for half a century, not just because of its engineers, but because of its money resources.
May 13, 2026
2026-05-13