Well they don&#x27;t solve &quot;technical&quot; problems, so I&#x27;m wondering what they are doing in Silicon Valley.<p>Or perhaps we should acknowledge that Silicon Valley these days is mostly about becoming the biggest brand in service-mediation, and running on external funding while making net losses year after year, and in the process pushing everybody else out of the market. It is not so much about technical innovation anymore. Look at how a lot of open source software is written in Europe and monetized in the US.