Mountain View, California — Travel Guide & Things to Do

Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the location of many high technology companies. In 1956, William Shockley established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in Silicon Valley. Today, Mountain View houses the headquarters of many of the world's largest technology companies, including Google and Alphabet Inc., Unicode Consortium, Intuit, NASA Ames Research Center, and major former and current headquarter offices for Microsoft, Symantec, 23andMe, LinkedIn, Samsung, Quora and Synopsys.