Arrillaga-Andreessen is also the Founder, former Chairman (1998-2008), and Chairman Emeritus of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), and she sits on the faculty and teaches Strategic Philanthropy at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
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Those were questions asked and debated at the 2011 Social innovation Summit, a Silicon Valley-based gathering held in November that brought together more than 300 leaders of nonprofits, celebrities, government representatives, and executives from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and elsewhere.
Unlike many social-media darlings, tech bloggers in Silicon Valley largely ignored the site until they noticed that it was growing like mad.
The duo dropped out of Harvard and moved to Silicon Valley together to launch the fledgling social network.
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Silicon Valley is all about economic and social dynamism with its accompanying chaos.
My prediction: The best and brightest millennials will combine missionary zeal, hardcore management skills and Silicon Valley-style creativity to attack social ills.
With that said, I wanted to share a recent experience which took place in Silicon Valley as I participated in the Social Innovation Summit.
Over the last few days and in some ways even longer, ever since Facebook began its incredible rise smart people here have been predicting that the social-networking boom would ruin the culture of Silicon Valley.
It was launched in Silicon Valley in 2002 and meant to be a social network around video games, but the sideline photo-hosting project turned out to be more promising.
The explosion of smartphones, social media and location-based services could fundamentally transform not only Silicon Valley industries but many others.
In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
Their Silicon Valley acumen of building successful ventures is a gift to these social entrepreneurs, but the GSBI mentors routinely tell me they get much more than they give.
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It has the remnants of a special relationship with America, it punches above its weight in military matters, and it has discovered in the third way a formula for grafting the entrepreneurial dynamism of Silicon Valley on to Europe's notions of equal opportunity and social justice.
After a decade of tepid growth and some years of job losses, Silicon Valley has blown itself another huge tech bubble, this time driven by the social media craze and a surge in private-equity investment.
While Tiger Global has invested in tech startups for several years, many of the other players are new to Silicon Valley's scene and are spreading their bets beyond a small circle of hot social-networking companies.
Hiroshi Mikitani is holding a glass of red wine and chatting up a clique of Silicon Valley tech execs at a swanky party for Pinterest, one of the hottest startups in social media.
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Digital Chocolate, another prominent Silicon Valley gaming company that he started in 2003 and which has made a splash with games on other social platforms like cellphones and Facebook.
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Silicon Valley is also home to a new generation of enterprise software startups harnessing momentum in cloud services, social networks, mobile computing and big data to introduce fundamentally new ways for businesses to do just about everything.
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