 | Silicon Valley - PBS show remembering the Roots of Start-up Culture |
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In the latest TV show focused on the Valley, entrepreneurs get a glimpse of the founders that paved the road for them. In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor business. Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip -- an essential component of nearly all modern electronics today, including computers, motor vehicles, cell phones and household appliances. Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/player/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/trailer/silicon-valley-preview/ http://www.inc.com/francesca-fenzi/pbs-silicon-valley-shows-real-startup-culture-roots.html http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1178 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1089 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1052 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=763 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=591 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=391 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=281 http://gcase.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=277 SOURCE: PBS.org, gcase.org, Inc.com |
