IP: Saying Goodbye, and Good Riddance to Silicon Valley

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

January 17, 1999

Saying Goodbye, and Good Riddance to Silicon Valley
By JOHN MARKOFF

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MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Until last year, Geoff Goodfellow was a Silicon Valley Wunderkind, a pioneer in the field of 
wireless electronic mail. Now, as a resident of the Czech Republic, he wakes up each day and gazes from the balcony of 
his loft over a jumble of rooftops at the Prague Castle on a nearby hill. 
Half a world away from Silicon Valley, Goodfellow has become a member of a small fraternity of engineers and 
entrepreneurs who have dropped out and walked away from ground zero of the Internet economy. 

 Goodfellow's departure is an exception to the popular notion that working in Silicon Valley, the world's 
high-technology capital, is its own reward. He left with a darker vision of life there and a disdain for the corrosive 
human effect of the region's workaholic, dollar-obsessed culture. 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html