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How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley

William Shockley was an electronics genius - he even won a Nobel Prize - but he was an awful boss. Shockley was a cruel, paranoid micromanager. And this annoyed the staff of brilliant young engineers he'd assembled in a quiet town in Northern California. In fact, they quit and set up a company of t…

The Forgotten Toolmakers of Bell Labs

One thing great about working at Bell Labs, there are so many experts…you can have the best electron microscopists here, the best optical measurement of layers that you can have, and you can have the best fabrication of devices in the final structures, everything’s the very best… Alfred Cho, MTS a…

Business History: From Tyrant to Tech Empire

William Shockley was a brilliant inventor and Nobel Prize winner, but he was a terrible boss. Paranoid, cruel, and obsessed with micromanaging, he drove away the team of young engineers — later called “The Traitorous Eight” — he had assembled in Northern California. They went on to pioneer silicon …

Eugenics and Silicon Valley: The Gates Family, Stanford University and William Shockley, Father of Silicon Valley, PROMOTED Eugenics.

"Before you trust someone with the future, look at what they did with the power they already had." - Dianne Emerson Eugenics and Silicon Valley: The Gates Family, Stanford University and William Shockley, Father of Silicon Valley, PROMOTED Eugenics. Silicon Valley wants us to trust its most po…

Eugenics and Silicon Valley: The Gates Family, Stanford University and William Shockley, Father of Silicon Valley, PROMOTED Eugenics.

"Before you trust someone with the future, look at what they did with the power they already had." - Dianne Emerson Eugenics and Silicon Valley: The Gates Family, Stanford University and William Shockley, Father of Silicon Valley, PROMOTED Eugenics. Silicon Valley wants us to trust its most po…

AI & Colonial Logic: Christian “ZacaTechO” Ortiz & Thema Monroe-White

Part of SAND’s The Great AI Unraveling Series Artificial intelligence is often framed as a leap forward, a technical revolution, or an inevitable stage in human progress. But what if AI is also asking us to confront something older: the colonial logic embedded in how we define intelligence, progre…

Uncapped #57 | Andrew Feldman from Cerebras

Andrew Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, the AI chip company he founded in 2016 around a single radical insight: that winning in compute requires not incremental improvement but a fundamentally different architecture. Cerebras is the creator of the world's largest chip, the Waf…

#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)

What I learned from reading Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel Shurkin.  ----  [1:19] Why would a man as unquestionably brilliant as he knowingly and deliberately destroy himself? [5:04] Dear Jean: I am sorry that I feel I can no longer go on…

#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

What I learned from reading The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. ---- [0:29] This is the story of those pioneers hackers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Who they were, how their minds worked, and what made them so creative.  […

How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley... from Business History

Throughout the next few weeks, every Monday we'll be sharing some of our favorite episodes from Jacob's other show Business History. We hope you enjoy them and if you want to hear more, subscriber to Business History on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. William Shockley was an elec…