Without Shockley's Mom, Silicon Valley Could Have Been Portland
finbarrtimbers · x · 2026-10-27
A tech-history anecdote: in the mid-1950s, transistor co-inventor and Nobel laureate William Shockley chose Palo Alto largely because he wanted to live near his mother, seeding what became Silicon Valley. finbarrtimbers quips that without Shockley's mom, SF's tech scene might have ended up in Portland instead.
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