Chang notes, "Silicon Valley has been a center for technology for over twenty years. Chinese came here and accumulated considerable training and capital and met others doing the same. Plus venture capital companies had easy credit in the early eighties. People saw others starting firms and said 'why not me?'"
張國華分析：「矽谷興起了廿多年，華人工程師到這裡工作一段時間後，累積了相當的技術、財富，也有了合作的班底，加上八十年代初期風險性投資公司放款較鬆，創業風於是興起；有人做得有聲有色，引得更多人躍躍欲試。」