He proceeded to try to peddle me inside information on one of the big Silicon Valley firms.
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While Depp has his ups and downs he never has a big career valley like Jolie does between 2000 and 2005.
Her advisor was Kathy Eisenhardt who has famously consulted on the side a number of big Silicon Valley tech companies over the years.
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His speech so galvanised the gathered titans that he now has the backing of Sun Microsystems, Google and several big Silicon Valley venture-capital funds and investors.
He met with the commissioners of the Missouri Valley and Big East conferences.
And so did 50 other big-shot Silicon Valley types, including Napster cofounder Sean Parker and venture capitalist Heidi Roizen.
Virtually every big firm in Silicon Valley is a spin-off from another one.
He has a day job designing strategy computer games for Big Huge Games of Hunt Valley, Md.
But Hollywood has some big arrows aimed at Silicon Valley when it comes to keeping from getting ripped off.
Big news that the Tennessee Valley Authority is closing 18 of its oldest and dirtiest boilers at its coal-fired power plants.
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Under Mayor Bloomberg New York has managed to raise its tech profile, tempting some risky writers to muse that the Big Apple could eclipse Silicon Valley.
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For his part, Foursquare CEO and cofounder Dennis Crowley spent all last week meeting with all the big name companies in the Valley, including Apple, Facebook, and Twitter.
Many would argue that Silicon Valley's big law firms--such as Brobeck Phleger, Gunderson Dettmer, The Venture Law Group and especially Wilson Sansini Goodrich--are at least as powerful as its venture capitalists.
Dr Gray and Dr Wegner believe their findings argue that a big part of the uncanny-valley effect stems from expectations not being met.
Indeed, running a big American firm or a Silicon Valley start-up is now riskier than being grand vizier in the court of the Ottoman sultan.
It is how the far mightier Silicon Valley emerged, with a big defence industry spinning off start-up firms.
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The founders, David and Ellen Siminoff, have been successful executives and investors in the Valley since the Web became big business.
While California has its big cabernets and buttery chardonnays, Willamette Valley winemakers have become famous for the finicky, cool weather pinot noir grape.
Silicon Valley has discovered CalArts in a big way, too hence all those gifts of fancy new computers.
As we now know, it was big money--hedge funds, Silicon Valley, Hollywood--not small donors who helped propel Obama's financial juggernaut.
Being a creature of Silicon Valley, it's a big deal to Google to be considered a "thought leader" and not a follower.
The Rio Grande Valley not only wants to woo big companies, but to encourage entrepreneurs like Ledesma who employs 12 people to start businesses here.
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Big money can still be made in Silicon Valley, Hollywood or around the academic economy of Boston, but in terms of overall jobs, the past decade has been dismal for these regions.
Yet at the urging of venture capitalists with somewhat longer memories and plenty of cash at risk, firms across California's Silicon Valley and beyond have been making big cuts in their relatively small budgets.
Wagner said Silicon Valley startups and Hollywood movies have one big thing in common: big money chasing big risk.
While Son's appetite for growth is ravenous, even by Silicon Valley standards, Softbank's three big U.S. acquisitions are cash cows, not chancy startups.
The project was to be announced at the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation's "Next Big Thing" breakfast series at the university.
Tied closely to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, the renewable capitalist have been losing big time in the marketplace, the victims of foreign, largely Chinese competition, and the burgeoning natural gas industry.
Hartz also advises them to remember that people who have enjoyed success as Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are always looking for the next big thing and they enjoy helping the next generation along where their know-how matters.
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