bob swanson and bob taylor, we are thrilled to have several of the remarkable troublemakers with us tonight so please stand and be recognized. [applause] >> thank you. to tell the story of these remarkable people and others, leslie is the project historian for silicon valley archives, a fellow at the center for advanced studies of behavioral sciences at smithsonian national museum of american history. to introduce her i would like to share as our tradition five members. 35 mi. as described in her book, 14 wild years chronicles, two books published, sound of 7 valley upstarts filed in troublemakers and two children, please join me giving a warm welcome to leslie berlin. [applause] >> great to have you. >> leslie, enjoyed reading the troublemakers. you have been a chronicler of the valley history for two decades and you often quote steve jobs, you can't understand what is going on unless you understand what came before, for a place focused on creating the future why is silicon valley history important? >> it is hard to out speak steve jobs on that. i do believe you can't understand what is ha

bob swanson and bob taylor. al, mike and sandy would you please stand. [applause]. the stories of those remarkable people and others is leslie berlin. the project historian for the silicon valley archives she has been a fellow at the center for advanced studies and behavioral scientists i would like to share five numbers. so, 35 square miles were the ones that change the world. fourteen wild years. two books published seven upstarts. please join me in giving me a very warm welcome to leslie berlin. great to have you. leslie, really delighted to have you here. and enjoyed reading the troublemakers you had been a chronicle of the history for two decades you can't really understand what goes on unless you understand what came for. it is hard to out speak steve jobs on that. i do believe that you can't understand what's happening today without understanding what came before more important for as importantly's is that they have this remarkable advantage which is the history is still here. the people in this room and all over this community is quite accessible. i think th

. >> we still have to talk about bob swanson. let's introduce him. >> and his story is folded into the framers that i was telling you about. number of the biotech industry the way the overlap happen with the whole idea would be the first to tell you they are the chemical engineer they didn't know what that meant to build in this universe talking about going on vacation biology 101. nonetheless he felt this technology to the semi conductor industry. and really had to battle to work through the question the purpose of a university? how do you have a place that is to increase the public knowledge and at the same time patent some of your ideas? and only pursuing profitable research? so at the same time bob swanson just got fired and is literally living on welfare to interest people and basically goes down a list to say do you think we could make any money? and they keep hanging up on him so that is a really interesting story because they were so persistent and really went into this without any idea of how to build a biotech company.