&quot;In other words. You can&#x27;t design a silicon valley because it wasn&#x27;t designed to begin with. It evolved from a number of factors and &quot;after the fact realizations&quot; which are not possible to copy.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ll agree with that. Far as the past, there were lessons being created every step of the way for future efforts to learn from. Certainly there&#x27;s going to be plenty of new things in an area focused on creating new things. Obvious. There are old things that apply, though.<p>We even see Silicon Valley founders trying to draw from past lessons and successes as they create and grow their companies. That&#x27;s smart of them. Those trying to re-create or exceed Silicon Valley aren&#x27;t playing it as smart as they leave off components from its past. The Strategic Computing Initiative, DARPA, government contracts... lots of public investment in many creative teams in physical proximity happened. In parallel, we had the various booms going on in the private sector on both VC and demand side creating all kinds of companies and experience. On top of it, all these new people and developments like Y Combinator.<p>Silicon Valley emerges and is sustained from all of this. Probably more factors I haven&#x27;t even mentioned. A lot of components to copy that the copycats either aren&#x27;t copying or can&#x27;t.