CHM Blog
The CHM blog showcases ideas and insights from our vibrant community in Silicon Valley and around the world. We take you behind the scenes of our programming, collections, and exhibits. Connecting the past to the present and into the future, we decode technology for everyone.
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Exponential Center, CHM Live
Making Change: 36 Years of Innovation at Intuit
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
How does a tech company founded in the era of floppy disks and hand-packaged software not only survive but thrive as the market leader for 36 years? Cofounders Scott Cook and Tom Proulx and early CFO Eric Dunn, now CEO of Quicken, share insights into the principles and key decisions that keep Intuit at the leading edge
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
The Valley and the “Swamp”: Big Government in the History of Silicon Valley
Thursday, October 10, 2019
O’Mara describes post-WWII Silicon Valley as an “entrepreneurial Galapagos,” a region developing in some isolation on the West Coast with very distinctive species of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, law firms, marketing firms, and research universities.
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Play Like a Girl: How Women Investors Succeed in Silicon Valley
Monday, July 1, 2019
Thirty years ago, no one thought we’d still be talking about discrimination, gender bias, and sexual harassment in 2019. Unfortunately, we are. Changing cultural norms takes time. What can women who thrive in the competitive, male-dominated world of Silicon Valley venture capital teach us in the meantime? Plenty.
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Players Take the Field: Silicon Valley Leaders Share How Coach Bill Campbell Helped Them Succeed
Thursday, June 6, 2019
On April 26, 2019, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki moderated a panel discussion with longtime Google leaders Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle to reveal the leadership strategies of “Coach” Bill Campbell, as captured in their new book, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Ca
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Blitzscaling: How Silicon Valley Learned to Grow
Friday, January 11, 2019
Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and partner at the venture capital firm Greylock, joined CHM CEO Dan'l Lewin on December 4 to discuss the new book he co-wrote with Chris Yeh: Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies.
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Innovating Prosperity
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
On November 13, Clay Christensen, voted “the World’s Most Influential Business Management Thinker,” shared a preview of his upcoming book, Prosperity Paradox, followed by a discussion with Intuit cofounder and chair Scott Cook.
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Hacking Our Security: Digital Resilience for the Next Cyber Threat
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
On October 23, Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of cybersecurity analytics firm RedSeal and national security expert and Brunswick Partner Siobhan Gorman discussed Rothrock’s timely new book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Leading Man: Inspired Stories From a Silicon Valley Icon
Friday, October 5, 2018
Storytelling can “engage the heart” and inspire people to follow your vision, according to John Hennessy, Alphabet chairman and former president of Stanford University. He and moderator Marissa Mayer, cofounder of Lumi Labs and former president and CEO of Yahoo, recently discussed some of the leadership stories and adv
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CHM Live, Curatorial Insights, Software History Center
Navigating the Quantum Computing Frontier
Friday, August 24, 2018
Perhaps you are like me: You’ve aware that quantum computing is a hot topic today but have a nagging feeling that you don’t really have a good picture of what it’s all about. Sure, you know it has something to do with the unintuitive behavior of the world described by quantum mechanics—cats in boxes that are blends of
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Invested in China: Venture Capitalists on Growing Chinese Tech Companies
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Remember when “Made in China” was synonymous with a cheap toy or electronic knockoff? Those days are long over. Chinese tech firms, once seen as quaint or copycats, can now count Alibaba, Tencent, and Ant Financial in the world’s top 10 most valuable internet companies, alongside Alphabet, Facebook, and Amazon. And the