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Place #1
Distance: 0.00mi , Attraction : Historic Road (Recommended selfie spot).
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2650 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Legendary Venture Capital Road
Welcome to Sand Hill Road, ladies and gentlemen — a stretch of asphalt that might look like just another office park… but don’t let the calm landscaping fool you.

This is hallowed ground for innovation. The financial heartbeat of Silicon Valley.

For decades, this road has been home to some of the most powerful venture capital firms in the world — firms like Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Andreessen Horowitz. These are the investors with deep pockets and sharper instincts, the ones who decide which startups get a shot at changing the world… or at least getting very rich trying.

Think of Sand Hill Road as the ultimate audition stage for entrepreneurs.

Back in the early days, founders would perform what insiders called the “Sand Hill shuffle” — hustling from one VC office to another, pitching their vision in tightly timed 20-minute meetings. No slides wasted. No time for fluff. Just big ideas and bigger ambition.

The sheer amount of capital deployed from these buildings is staggering. Companies like Google, Apple, and countless others secured early funding through connections made right here — turning dorm-room concepts and garage prototypes into global giants.

Sand Hill rose to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when investment money flowed like water. But its influence didn’t fade when the bubble burst — it matured. Today, whether it’s artificial intelligence, biotech, climate tech, or the next social platform, chances are its first real financial backing was shaped in one of these offices.

Here, billion-dollar decisions are made over coffee. Term sheets replace handshakes. And somewhere inside one of these quiet buildings, someone is pitching the next company that could reshape the world.

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road
Place #2
Distance: 1.90mi , Attraction : University Entrance (Recommended selfie spot).
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228 Panama St #228, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Stanford University
Welcome to Stanford University — the intellectual engine of Silicon Valley.

Founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife Jane, the university was built with a bold vision: to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization. It sounds lofty — and in many ways, it has delivered.

As you drive past palm-lined entrances and sandstone buildings with red-tiled roofs, you’re looking at one of the most influential campuses in the world. But Stanford isn’t just known for academics — it’s known for what happens after class.

This is where Google began as a research project in a dorm room. Where Yahoo was born from a directory of favorite websites. Where Hewlett-Packard’s founders were mentored. Where venture capital relationships were formed over coffee and late-night brainstorming sessions.

Stanford didn’t just educate engineers — it encouraged them to build companies. In the 1950s, the university actively supported the creation of Stanford Research Park, helping faculty and graduates turn ideas into businesses. That decision helped spark what would eventually become Silicon Valley.

Today, Stanford continues to lead in artificial intelligence, biotech, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. Professors collaborate with startups. Students pitch investors before graduation. And ambition is practically part of the curriculum.

If Sand Hill Road is the financial heart of the Valley, Stanford is the mind behind it — where bold ideas are tested, refined, and often launched into the world.

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  https://www.stanford.edu/
Tour itinerary stops | Additional places you'll see on this self-guided tour

Map Pin Place 1 Legendary Venture Capital Road
Map Pin Place 2 Stanford University
Map Pin Place 3 Stanford University - Palm Drive Entrance
Map Pin Place 4 Downtown Palo Alto Hub
Map Pin Place 5 Birthplace of Silicon Valley - The Garage That Started It All
Map Pin Place 6 Entering the Metaverse Meta Headquarters – Menlo Park
Map Pin Place 7 Disrupting the Auto Industry Tesla Early Headquarters
Map Pin Place 8 Stanford Research Park - Where Silicon Valley Took Root
Map Pin Place 9 Google Headquarters – The Googleplex
Map Pin Place 10 Computer History Museum
Map Pin Place 11 LinkedIn Headquarters
Map Pin Place 12 Lockheed Martin Space Systems - Rocket Science, Literally
Map Pin Place 13 Before Google - Former Yahoo! Headquarters
Map Pin Place 14 Plug and Play Accelerator
Map Pin Place 15 Powering the AI Revolution, NVIDIA Global Headquarters
Map Pin Place 16 Intel Headquarters & Intel Museum - Where the Microchip Changed the World
Map Pin Place 17 Building the Internet’s Backbone - Cisco Systems Headquarters
Map Pin Place 18 The Tools of Digital Creativity Adobe Headquarters
Map Pin Place 19 eBay Global HQ
Map Pin Place 20 Streaming Changed Forever - Netflix Headquarters
Map Pin Place 21 On the Way to Steve Jobs’ Childhood Home
Map Pin Place 22 Apple's Birthplace Garage - The Garage That Changed the World
Map Pin Place 23 Apple Park
Map Pin Place 24 Apple's Spaceship Campus
Map Pin Place 25 The Circle Is Complete



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