Nedavno je objavio dva vrlo zanimljiva eseja: "How to be Silicon Valley", i "Why startups condense in America", gdje kaze "when I consider what it would take to reproduce Silicon Valley in another country, it's clear the US is a particularly humid environment. Startups condense more easily here". Razloge za to vidi u slijedecem:
1) The US Allows Immigration, 2) The US Is a Rich Country, 3) The US Is Not (Yet) a Police State, 4) American Universities Are Better, 5) You Can Fire People in America, 6) In America Work Is Less Identified with Employment, 7) America Is Not Too Fussy, 8) America Has a Large Domestic Market, 9) America Has Venture Funding, 10) America Has Dynamic Typing for Careers.

Glavna poruka tih eseja je: "The exciting thing is, all you need are the people. If you could attract a critical mass of nerds and investors to live somewhere, you could reproduce Silicon Valley. And both groups are highly mobile. They'll go where life is good.", te nakon toga opisuje kako bi takva mjesta trebala izgledati.

Iz ta dva teksta za oko su mi zapeli slijedeci detalji:

"Building office buildings for technology companies won't get you a silicon valley, because the key stage in the life of a startup happens before they want that kind of space. The key stage is when they're three guys operating out of an apartment. ... So if you want to reproduce Silicon Valley, what you need to reproduce is those two or three founders sitting around a kitchen table deciding to start a company. And to reproduce that you need those people."

"Startups are the kind of thing people don't plan, so you're more likely to get them in a society where it's ok to make career decisions on the fly.... In the US most people in CS PhD programs are there simply because they wanted to learn more. They haven't decided what they'll do afterward. So American grad schools spawn a lot of startups, because students don't feel they're failing if they don't go into research."