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"ref": "2002, David Naguib Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, “Toward Environmental and Social Justice in Silicon Valley, USA, and Beyond”, in The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, page 212",
"text": "Since the late 1950s, when perhaps six unions were active in the Valley, the trade associations and individual firms have made it one of their primary missions to destroy all vestiges of worker autonomy, the most visible manifestation of which is the union.",
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"ref": "2008, Sarah Lacy, “Sell Out”, in Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, Gotham Books, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., page 237",
"text": "The company had merged with Sequoia [Capital]-backed X.com, and [Michael] Moritz had insisted on a grown-up CEO to run the combined company. The offer that came back from investors was a $200 million round at a $500 million pre-money valuation. Sounds rich, right? The PayPalers were insulted. It was the height of the bubble; they all thought PayPal was the next great Valley company and should be worth far more than that.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Ellipsis of Silicon Valley."
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"Silicon Valley",
"Silicon Valley#English"
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"San Fernando Valley",
"Valley, Anglesey",
"en:Valley (disambiguation)"
],
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}
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