College towns don&#x27;t have pools of investors with tolerance for high risk. They don&#x27;t have a culture where working 80 hours a week is normalized, what is normal is spending Saturdays in the fall drinking and watching college football.<p>Anyway, Marc Andreesen left the small town to team up with Jim Clark of <i>Silicon</i> Graphics fame to found Netscape in the valley. That&#x27;s not to dismiss the long history of computing at UIUC, but the &quot;Mozilla invented here&quot; historical markers erected by the chamber of commerce reflect the belief that marketing is more important than product that runs rampant in small markets. It&#x27;s not that everyone doesn&#x27;t believe their own bullshit, but young people tend to arrive in Blacksberg via an application process, not because they want to build the future.