Former Secretary of Defense William Perry talks about the landscape of Silicon Valley before the region earned that name. In conversation with entrepreneurship educator Steve Blank, Perry recalls how he left a senior position at a large corporation to start his own company after realizing that the emergence of semiconductors would render existing technology obsolete.

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