A quick demo to record. Loom's free plan stops at five minutes.
Reelbird
The link comes first. The polish comes later.
Link first, polish later
Visit Reelbird ↗The legends of Silicon Valley · Vol. 1
Turn your startup into a Silicon Valley legend.
Get your origin story illustrated and ready to post, with a place in the catalog beside Apple, Stripe and Airbnb. It's the launch post people will actually pass around.
Go meet the legends.
Read how each one started, then go try the real thing.
New Legends
Just added Fresh off the press.
Dozens of small apps. Every one needs its own hosting.
ShipTiffin
Dozens of small apps. One box, one price.
Apps in one box
Visit ShipTiffin ↗The Garage Era
1939–1977 Before anyone said runway.
Palo Alto, 1939. Two friends rent a garage.
HP
Two guys, one garage, $538. The Valley's first commit.
Still the origin myth
Visit HP ↗
1957. The boss is a genius and a nightmare.
Fairchild Semiconductor
Eight engineers rage-quit. The Valley never stopped.
Spawned everybody
1968. Two of the Traitorous Eight quit again.
Intel
Quit Fairchild. Raise in two days. Double every two years.
Moore's Law, in person
Visit Intel ↗1972. A training project: make a ball bounce.
Atari
The bug report said it was broken. It was full of quarters.
Made arcades a business
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1975. A magazine cover changes everything.
Microsoft
Sold software for a computer they'd never touched.
Software eats the PC
Visit Microsoft ↗
A hobbyist club in Menlo Park. Show and tell.
Apple
A van, a calculator, and one hobby-shop order for 50.
Biggest garage exit ever
Visit Apple ↗
IBM publishes how databases should work.
Oracle
Read IBM's paper. Shipped it first. Called it Version 2.
Database empire
Visit Oracle ↗Chips & Spreadsheets
1982–1994 Software learns to invoice.
1982. Two Xerox PARC researchers solve print.
Adobe
Xerox wouldn't ship it, so they left and did.
You've paid them monthly
Visit Adobe ↗
Palo Alto, 1983. She hates paying the bills.
Intuit
His wife hated paying bills. So he followed people home.
Tax season's landlord
Visit Intuit ↗
A film studio sells off its computer division.
Pixar
A $135,000 computer nobody wanted. Then a short about a lamp.
Sold to Disney for $7.4B
Visit Pixar ↗What you walk away with
- A story people retell. Your startup gets what Apple's garage and Airbnb's cereal boxes have: a beginning everyone remembers.
- A post worth sharing. It plays right in the feed on X and LinkedIn, so people get what you do before they scroll past.
- A place among the legends. You get your own page in the catalog to send to investors, customers and your mom.
Your startup belongs on this shelf.
Tell us how it started. We'll draw the story and send people your way.
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