Firstly, I am interested in alumni networks in general: In Silicon
Valley, ex-employees of Netscape, Yahoo and google control many of the
decisions behind what happens. Here in Bangalore, the ex-Wipro
mafia is
well known. I am interested in people's thoughts on alumni
networks, and
how to do them well
It could just be an artifact of being more interested these days in
the development of lines of thought than in product lines, but I see
the network relationship flipping over longer timescales: people who
do interesting work in a field tend to wind up working together
sooner or later, and over a lifetime, or even over a career, their
companies become a side note: the ex-affiliations of this group or
that; a quaint record of variation by recombination.
-Dave
(PS: for an example of the connectedness of Silicon Valley before N,Y,g,
cf http://www.startup-book.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/svg-full.jpg
of course, other industries in other times and places had similar
diagrams)
