Selling the Valley

摘要

I don't know how to start on the salesmen of Silicon Valley. All of the men in this issue of Upside were, to a greater or lesser extent, salespeople: They sold their ideas, their minds, their labor, and themselves. Silicon Valley is the home to a generation of great salespeople. So why choose to start with Jerry Sanders? Maybe it's the convertible Bentley sitting in the garage of the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) headquarters. Maybe it's his salesman's sartorial splendor, his bodybuilder's physique, or his preternaturally loud voice. Hell, maybe it's the? traveling-jack road-show twinkle in blue eyes that shine undiminished by his 64 years.