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Originally Posted by mark0
"The state of California had nothing to do with Apple forming or Facebook forming or Google forming."
The state of CA fostered an innovative environment due to military spending on aerospace starting in the 1940s and lead to computing in the 1950s and the formation of Silicon Valley. If there was no Silicon Valley and tons of electrical and computing engineering geeks running around in the late 1960s and 70s then there would be no Apple. And if there was no Silicon Valley there would be no way to scale up Google or Facebook or any of the others that moved there in their embryonic stage. In the era that created Silicon Valley CA was a low tax, pro business, wide open state with cheap land and inventive people.
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you're thinking of federal military spending, nothing to do with the state, and you forgot the catalyst for silicon valley was the private university of Stanford, again not state funded