Sand Hill Road

English Etymology The road and its name existed in the 1920sen 1926 Annual Report of the President of Stanford University: For the Thirty-Fourth Academic Year, Ending August 31, 1925 Stanford University Bulletin 5 3 Stanford University 59 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_President_of_Stanfo/6VsWAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Sand+Hill+Road%22&pg=RA1-PA59&printsec=frontcover In order to protect its present holdings against the encroachment of auto camps and other enterprises which would adversely affect the value of its lands, the University Stanford University has completed the purchase of a 10-acre tract bordering on the westerly bank of San Francisquito Creek, and running from the old wooden bridge to Cedro Cottage, at a cost of $12,069.20. It also has purchased approximately 125 acres of beautiful rolling lands adjoining Searsville Lake, on the west and north, and lying between the Lake and the Sand Hill road, at a cost of $112,782, and has contracted to purchase an additional 1.42-acre tract, with improvements, in this same area, at a price of $9,427. and possibly before. The road was evidently named as a route toward a place called Sand Hill, but the Sand Hill in Oakley is not the referent, as it lies in a distant part of the Bay Area. The neighborhood sense and the venture-capital industry sense are by metonymy and are many decades newer. Proper noun Sand Hill Road An arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Woodside, notable for its concentration of venture capital firms' offices. en Sand Hill SHR en Silicon Valley en neighborhood city/Palo Alto s/California, named after the road. en Sand Hill SHR en Silicon Valley en http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/aug/26/business.columnists There is a message in the dust on Sand Hill Road 2001-08-25 The Observer John Naughton There was a time when funding for internet start-ups was so easy that what came to matter was not how much you could get but where it came from. And if you got it from Sand Hill Road, Wall Street regarded that much as Catholics regard a benediction from the Pope. https://web.archive.org/web/20261021004207/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/aug/26/business.columnists 21 October 2026 en John Markoff The Year Ahead: Consolidation and Competition as an Industry Grows Up The New York Times 2003-12-29 https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/business/technology-year-ahead-consolidation-competition-industry-grows-up-venture.html 0362-4331 Yet there is little visible gloom along Sand Hill Road, a suburban business neighborhood where office real estate is among the most expensive in the world. https://web.archive.org/web/20220401032745/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/business/technology-year-ahead-consolidation-competition-industry-grows-up-venture.html 1 April 2022 en metonym The Californian venture capital industry, including its influence on Big Tech and biotech. en Sand Hill SHR en Wall Street en Silicon Valley en w:Tad Friend Bryce Roberts 2016-10-03 Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny The New Yorker Bryce Roberts said, “It has to be a way of disrupting Sand Hill Road”—where a number of the Valley’s top venture firms reside. https://web.archive.org/web/20261005151321/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny 5 October 2026 en Julia Carrie Wong http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/29/in-pete-buttigieg-venture-capitalists-see-a-campaign-to-invest-in Young, Ivy League and data-driven: why venture capitalists love Pete Buttigieg 2019-07-30 The Guardian Such numbers aren’t everything to a candidate running for the president of the entire country and not just Sand Hill Road, especially at a point in the campaign when many donors are hedging their bets by backing multiple candidates. https://web.archive.org/web/20261020141400/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/29/in-pete-buttigieg-venture-capitalists-see-a-campaign-to-invest-in 20 October 2026 References Further reading