{"id":37681,"date":"2012-02-24T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=37681"},"modified":"2012-02-24T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T07:02:20","slug":"there-are-350000-canadians-living-and-working-silicon-valley-right-now","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/there-are-350000-canadians-living-and-working-silicon-valley-right-now","title":{"rendered":"There are 350,000 Canadians Living and Working in Silicon Valley Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/silicon-valley-sign-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/>There are just over 34 million people in Canada. Down in Silicon Valley, there are another 350,000. That&#8217;s right&mdash;an amount equal to more than one percent of our entire country&#8217;s population is living and working in a single dot on the map in America.<\/p>\n<p>This remarkable fact is one of many in an in-depth piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/rob-magazine\/lessons-from-canadas-silicon-valley-diaspora\/article2346666\/singlepage\/#articlecontent\" target=\"_blank\">published in The Globe and Mail&#8217;s Report on Business magazine<\/a>&nbsp;yesterday. Titled &#8220;Lessons from Canada&#8217;s Silicon Valley diaspora,&#8221; the 7,700-word article details the interesting lives and stories of various Canadians who have found themselves in the famous, and infamous, Valley&mdash;from &#8220;the geek&#8221; to &#8220;the CEO&#8221; to &#8220;the angel,&#8221; and even &#8220;the wannabe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth leaning back in your comfiest armchair with a coffee (or a whiskey) by your side and the newspaper (or an iPad) in your hands. It&#8217;s worth delving into the minds of these Canadians: do they want to be in the Valley, or do they have to be? What do they think of Canada&#8217;s tech scene&mdash;and the Valley&#8217;s? Fact is, everyone has their own unique story and it would take a lifetime to document all 350,000 of them. But even this tiny glimpse is significant. And there are always lessons to be learned from Canada&#8217;s Silicon Valley diaspora.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Trends<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are just over 34 million people in Canada. Down in Silicon Valley, there are another 350,000. That&#8217;s right&mdash;an amount equal to more than one percent of our entire country&#8217;s population is living and working in a single dot on the map in America. This remarkable fact is one of many in an in-depth piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":37683,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-37681","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/37681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/37681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/37683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=37681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}