When people in Silicon Valley recall General Magic, they generally remember it as a tragedy.

FORBES: General Magic: The Most Important Dead Company in Silicon Valley?

The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).

FORBES: Pulled in a New Direction

Marc is a general partner at Elevation, the Silicon Valley private equity firm that took a minority share in Forbes last year.

FORBES: Stand Up, Free-Trade Democrats!

Buffett or the executives of General Electric or the masters of Silicon Valley's venture capital would never think of staking their funds without inside knowledge unavailable to hoi polloi.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Rte 128 had DEC, Data General and Wang, giant self-contained corporations that did everything from etching the silicon to building the boxes to writing the applications code.

FORBES: DEC's Final Demise

While our discussions are aimed especially at general businesspeople, whom we believe can benefit tremendously from studying and taking cues from what happens in Silicon Valley, we also scrutinize the influential politics of the Valley itself.

FORBES: Here Comes the Techonomy Conference

Early last year, around the time Yahoo was worth twice what General Motors was, I threw a dinner party for the author Michael Lewis at our FORBES digs in Silicon Valley.

FORBES: Got to be wireless