Phenomenon / matter: A Letter to a historian in 28 May 2018 / replied

Subject: Bill Draper on his view on a Silicon Valley inflection point Stanford/Engineering and Yale data points

• Marcio’s letter to Leslie (historian)
• Leslie is a historian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mk0UN9VYsg
• Context: Marcio found a precious snippet of reflection about the challenges for universities in US back when Stanford decided to focus in engineering and Yale decided to kill the engineering department.

Hi Leslie,

Not sure if you have seen the following snippet but I thought that you would very much enjoy. The following is a moment depicted by Mr. Draper [1] from the Bay Area (you may even know him I would guess) Notice, at the position 8min plus, when he addresses that Yale had an engineering department when they decided to kill it; in an inclination to be stronger in the sciences while Stanford embraced engineering. I loved when he said “they beef it up”. It’s not an exact correlation for the valley creation of course, as you well know but nevertheless it’s interesting from a phenomenon point of view:

An expected reaction of experienced people, in a field, when they see an emerging new layer, such as applications layers. A tendency to stick to the core, and the market; as opposite to exploring the new (above the layer markets)

I found you from a Silicon Valley documentary and todya I finally queried for your name. I wanted to say thanks for your work.

Have a good day, Marcio

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Draper_III

Leslie sent the following message at 2:39 PM

“Thank you for sending this along.”

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