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Chloé AMICEL (Erasmus) (722683)

Silicon Valley and the American Dream
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Silicon Valley-the birth place of many technology-related companies, and a great source
of income for the United States
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It’s where most headquarters of famous companies such as Facebook, Google
or Apple can be found
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3 million workers, and California remains
one of the only states that still attracts immigrants today
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In a first part, I will deal with two multinational tech-companies that set an internatio na l
example (Google and Apple), and see how they contribute to the American Dream
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Its success is based mostly on
three principles: collaboration and team work, failure and innovation
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It doesn’t work like that
in Silicon Valley: employees are encouraged to share and work together, just like employees are
not reprimanded for making mistakes, on the contrary in Silicon Valley it is believed that making
mistakes is the best way to learn and do better the next time around
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“A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the

solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed
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A good
example of this state of mind would be Google
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Their goal was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible
and useful" (Google Corporate information)
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More than its online
popularity, Google is particularly known for its incredibly creative environment, that makes
employees worldwide dream
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In 2004, Google moved its
headquarters to Mountain view, California, where they are still located today
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In a usual office, people aren’t always in a good mood, on the
contrary most employees are annoyed and just want to get to the end of the day
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In the scene where the actors first arrive on campus, the character played by Owen Wilson
says: “Picture the greatest amusement park you’ve ever been to as a kid
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” And Google got it all right: promoting creativity to this extent
motivates employees to go to work every morning, and with that motivation comes more
productivity
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Founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his Harvard classmates
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First limited to Harvard
students, it expanded to more colleges in the US, until reaching its peak and becoming the most

used social network in the world, with over 1
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Though Google cannot be surpassed
on freedom of creativity, Facebook is, according to the online newspaper Business Insider, also a
very ‘cool’ place in terms of working conditions: one example, every year a party is hosted on the
Facebook campus to celebrate its birthday
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Behind every start-up is a founder(s), who builds his company from the ground up and
allows it to grow
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The term American Dream is closely related to the concept of ‘self-made-me n’ :
according to Mike Dillard (an entrepreneur in Austin, Texas), “a man becomes self-made the
moment he decides to shape his world, rather than be shaped by it”
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Mark Zuckerberg is a good example of that
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His father was a dentist, and mother, a psychiatrist
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Already in high-school, he was quite a good
student who exceled especially in classics and literature
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He wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and worked up to becoming one of the
100 wealthiest man on earth since 2010, according to Time magazine, with a personal wealth
estimated at 46 billion dollars in December 2015
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He was born on February 24, 1955 from a Muslim Syrian father and a Catholic
mother
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He grew up in
Wisconsin with his adoptive parents: a daughter of Armenian immigrants, and a son of abusive
parents
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With his two coworkers, he built Apple
from the ground up, selling his car to get funds
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To conclude, Silicon Valley is the home of technological innovation
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e
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Most of these companies started out of nothing to grow into multinationa ls :
they are start-ups
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An important point about the Silicon Valley is that it still attracts qualified immigrants from
all over the world today: in that sense, I believe that California nourishes the American Dream and
keeps it much alive, more than in most of the other states
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“Silicon Valley: the ecology of innovation”
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« L’antipolitique,

péché

originel

de

la

Silicon

Valley »

(http://www
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fr/pixels/article/2015/02/19/l-antipolitique-peche-originel-de- la-siliconvalley_4577534_4408996
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19/02/2015
WEBSITES:
-Google
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(http://www
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com/about/company/)
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“This

Is

What

Life

Is

Actually

Like

Working

For

Facebook”

(http://www
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com/what- its-like-to-work-at- facebook-2013-4)
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“Self-made man” (http://selfmademan
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2015
-Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies
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org/)
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“Mark Zuckerberg” (https://en
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org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Early_life )

January 11, 2016
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“Steve

Jobs”

(https://en
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org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Honors_and_awards )
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MOVIES:
-Levy, Shawn
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07/06/2013



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