Like most people on this planet

Everyone talks of the dot.com crash. There was no sudden crash. The shares went down, the analysts speculated, as they always do. Then, the shares went a bit up now just to keep the hope alive. Then more down, and down and down, a bit down, a bit up, and then collapsed and stayed there

I drive by horrible looking homes that cost un-reachable millions of dollars. VC’s, licking their wounds, sit on top of heaps of money fearful to make a move. There are no pensions waiting for us in California.

There are no other options. It's all we have left: our know-how to make software boom. They know how to make software everywhere is Internet. But one needs Sillicon Valley to make software boom.