Adrian Daub (Stanford): Silicon Valley has lost its myth
Stanford professor Adrian Daub on the Handelsblatt podcast: the myth of Silicon Valley is gone – many supposedly disruptive ideas turn out to be empty marketing phrases.
Many technology companies claim that their inventions are revolutionising entire industries. But is that actually true? Silicon Valley correspondent Stephan Scheuer explores the question in this episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt.
His guest, Adrian Daub, is professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University and has met many founders over the years. He has a different view: supposedly disruptive ideas, he finds, often turn out to be empty marketing phrases. “The myth of Silicon Valley is gone,” he says.
In the podcast, Daub and Scheuer discuss Stanford’s significance in Silicon Valley and explore why tech founders drop out after a few semesters – only to find themselves yearning for student life again.