Silicon Valley

My daily routine shows this fact all the time. In the past few days, for instance, I have been looking for a summer internship. Then, I remembered that one of my former programming competitions’ peers has been working in a big Silicon Valley company. I sent him a message on Facebook and, just a couple hours after, I had a recommendation that is going to make my internship application stronger. This peer is not one of my closest friends; however, we thought it would be good to maintain…

exciting opportunity to learn from real experts in the fields of business, computers and graphic arts. My ideal career would combine business marketing, technology and design. Which could be working as a creative director for Disney, joining a Silicon Valley start-up or even establishing my own business. Looking back I can see that my core values and strengths were honed by my years of isolation. First I developed the skills to teach myself from materials at hand. This skill allowed me to learn…

The article I chose to write about is “The Robot Invasion.” This article is informative on how robots could in the future replace humans. It discusses scientific research and break throughs to justify the authors points. Anyone in the working class should read this article, and educate themselves on how far robots have come. “The Robot Invasion” is written by Charlie Gillis. The main idea is to inform people of the change to come in a world pertaining to robots. The authors tone is formal, and…

Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters addresses the anomaly of an ideal marriage, an ideal culture and the stereotype immigrant theory of South Asians into America. Love, marriage, sex, dowry, woman subjugation intertwined with a small plot of victory in the face of child-marriage induces progressive interest through the novel. The conflict of tradition and modernity, irony of arrange marriage and acceptance of cultures beyond the laid-out limit, unfurls instantaneous engrossment. The two…

A Review of Engineering Communism: how tow americans spied for stalin and funded the soviet silicon valley Engineering Communism is the story of two men who would leave the United States to pursue their dreams of Communism and to support the country of Russia. Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant both Jewish men from New York would go on from being members of the local communist party to being the innovators behind much of the technological advances of the Cold War Soviet Union. Barr and Sarant would…

The history of computing technology can be organized into four distinct generations, each defined by a distinct transformation in technological innovation. The first generation stretched from 1947-1957, and is identifiable by its use of vacuum tube technology. This generation transitioned into the second generation during the late 1950’s with the use of transistors. Subsequently in the 1960’s the third generation began, classified by its use of integrated circuits. The fourth generation of…

● Value Proposition Quality - Level and determining factors. Methods used in research. (Yuanyang/Dean) ● Tesla has the highest Value Proposition Quality: Tesla brand means TOP luxury electric vehicles Tesla provides the quickest start from 0 to 60mph Tesla provides the shortest battery charging time Tesla provides better customer buying experience via direct sale. Tesla vehicles are rated 5 stars by Safety boards ● Or we could use Nathan’s: • Primary – Most advanced electric car…

Investment (ROI) ROI is the amount of profit a firm hopes to make from their investment. Often firms set a certain ROI percentage amouhnt, which it hopes will be earned over a product’s launch year. For example, if I were to invest $20,000 into a Silicon Valley start-up at 10% expected ROI, I would hope to see $2,000 in profits a year after the start-up’s product was launched. - Maximizing Profits When a firm cuts costs or encourages customer loyalty (especially during a weaker economy),…

Only in the late 1990’s were women still seen as being lesser than men, whereas today there’s a smaller gap, but still a separateness. Karen J. Hossfeld speaks up about how people are discriminated in her piece, “Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley”, focusing on women, but intertwining how gender and class have an impact on how people are seen through society’s lense. She makes a point that in the late 1990’s alone women were still paid less because working was only a secondary job to them…

praise for the company, praising it for its rapid growth; both Deloitte and Inc. Magazine published article discussing the speed of growth. In 2012, Five9 moved to its current location in San Ramon, which is located near both San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. In 2014, Five9 went public on NASDAQ with the ticker FIVN, raising $70…