Chapter 15 The Law: Observance and Breach
One way to look at the central activity—the obsession—of this place is to see it as breaking out, whether it is breaking through older limitations in a technical field, or breaking free from a current position as an employee into a new position as owner. That drive goes back to 1954, when William Shockley left Bell Labs to pursue the commercial opportunities offered by his transistor. Every time a protégé steps out, a mentor is left behind. Shockley is said to have referred to those who left him to start Fairchild Semiconductor as “the traitorous eight.” His company never got over the loss.
And Shockley begat Fairchild, which company in turn was hurt when Noyce and Moore went off to form Intel. And ...
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