Palo Alto, Calif., Man Becomes Accidental Real Estate Magnate.

Byline: Mike Cassidy

Mar. 26--You want to be a hippie in Silicon Valley, you have to work at it.

This is a place where materialism reigns; where dog-eat-dog trumps live-and-let-live.

Rob Levitsky -- child of the '60s, Deadhead, Palo Alto resident -- understands this. He's a hippie among yuppies. A man, who despite multimillion-dollar holdings, has maintained the lifestyle to which he's become accustomed.

His first job in 1979?

"It was just a bunch of hippies who listened to the Grateful Dead and had a vision for making this new industry, which was automated test equipment."

The pay was good. So, he and four co-workers …