008: "A Fast Horse"
By the early 1960s, Fairchild Camera & Instrument may have been the hottest stock on Wall Street, but internally, trouble was brewing. In this episode, refusing to become “just another employee working in a research lab for somebody else,”...
By the early 1960s, Fairchild Camera & Instrument may have been the hottest stock on Wall Street, but internally, trouble was brewing.
In this episode, refusing to become “just another employee working in a research lab for somebody else,” Semiconductor co-founder Jay Last takes a stand, and inadvertently launches an entirely new Silicon Valley phenomenon, the “Fairchildren.”
Also, in this episode, Arthur Rock launches the first venture capital fund on the West Coast… and spots a new opportunity to play matchmaker.
Bob Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor have one last card to play. It could be “corporate suicide.” Or it could be a massive success. Or it could be both.
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