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Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Take on Silicon Valley Wannabes

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 5, 2009 at 8:12 am PT

Eric Schmidt is brimming with Bay Area pride. In the 33 years that the Google CEO has lived in the Bay Area, Schmidt says he has watched a long list of regions try–and fail–to create technology capitals of Silicon Valley’s scale.