Thanks for posting this, Adam. The picture on the top of Mr. Anderson's page is a great shot, and I recently saw it in a presentation by Spencer Ante, author of "Creative Capital - Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital". Ante was in town a few weeks ago giving talks on the book and VC in general.

Something people should note in that picture is the presence of Ms. Rowe. She was very close to Doriot, who was leading American Research and Development (which bankrolled digital) at the time, and who made sure she was on the board. I think you would be hard pressed to find very many companies with female board members back then. If you haven't read about Doriot, you should. His is a very impressive story.

The digital logo features prominently in one of my most vivid memories of when I first came to Boston for school in the mid-90s. They had this wonderful picture of the sun rising behind downtown Boston on a billboard overlooking the Turnpike in Brighton. At the top it had the Digital logo, and on the bottom in big letters, it simply said "HOME". Cynics, with whom I can usually be counted, would say it was a PR move because they were about to be acquired by Compaq. I prefer to think of it as their way of saying thanks, as they had to know at that point that they were on their way out.

Anyway, the bottom line of it is this. When I saw that billboard I was a 19 (or so) year old kid who had been looking forward to moving to Boston for a long time. When I saw it I knew that I would never leave, and that I would always consider, in career choices and otherwise, how I could make things better in, and get more recognition for, our wonderful and tenacious outpost on the North Atlantic. You'll know me if you ever see me at a gathering of VCs, entrepreneurs or any other interesting people, because I am always the guy asking about how we are going to reclaim the position of Capital of American Innovation that was unfortunately ceded to Silicon Valley sometime between the late 60s and early 80s. (And yes, if you are wondering, I am familiar with Professor Saxenian's work "Regional Advantage").