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  1. “Bob's photograph and the line Bob Noyce Teen Idol. Semitech officially declared that day june first, nineteen ninety as Bob Noistay. By all accounts, Noyce was surprised and flattered by the event, not least the post opposing for photographs with pretty female staffers. That was Friday. On Saturday he held some business meetings at home to catch up on what he had missed, and on Sunday he took his usual morning swim. Then, feeling tired, he went inside, lay down on the couch, and died. I'll wrap right here Apple's computer's official comment no doubt influenced by Steve Jobs may have been the most powerful of all. He was one of the giants in this valley who provided the model and inspiration for everything we wanted to become. He was the ultimate inventor, the ultimate rebel, the ultimate entrepreneur.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “In the Bay Area. He was proud of what he had accomplished as Semitec. He took enormous pride in which Intel had become, and he was obviously beginning to ponder the next chapter in his life. Steve Jobs heard he was in town and anxious for Bob to meet and improve his fiance invited Noyce to his house for dinner. They stayed up talking till three AM. Like any group of employees who had ever worked with Bob Noyce, the people at Semate adored him, and when an article appeared in the San Jose Mercury during his visit that quoted a semiconductor equipment company executive as saying that Americans needed to change their idols and then nominated noise for that pedestal. Those employees decided to greet Bob on his return with a party, complete with t shirts that featured that quote.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “It was a great and if largely recognized victory for Bob Noyce, but it came at a great cost. He often spent the work week in Austin and then flew back to Los Altos to preside over various valley events and fundraisers. But there was little time now for his usual outlets of skiing and flying his planes, though he did swim almost daily at his Austin home. Unfortunately, the stress of the job had brought back his old chain smoking. On one of those trips back to the Bay Area, in which he gave a speech on Semitex's joint venture between the government, he took the time to be interviewed on a locally produced but nationally syndicated television show. Before the cameras rolled, he sat back in his chair and told the host, whom he knew very well, that he was happy to be back in the valley, even if it was only for a couple of days. He joked about being a Texas cowboy, saying that he had to scrape the shit off my boots before landing back.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So he is extremely depressed on the inside and yet look at the list of accomplishments that I just rattled off there. Anybody that from the outside, I think anybody doesn't know any better from the outside, would assume that what does this guy have to write to, what could he possibly be upset about? And I mean, listen to that resume. Very few people in the world will ever come close to accomplishing anything like that. The invention of the integrated circuit, founding two multi-billion dollar companies, a champion skier, a pilot, receiving national science medal, only 130 people in history to do so. And he's still depressed. So I know this has been talked about, especially in the last couple years. And even in the book, it talks about how being a founder, being an entrepreneur. Okay, so we're almost done.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Is a quote After the dishes had been cleared and the children sent to bed, Noyce listened as the company founder explained that someday if the business did well, he would like to move his family into a bigger, nicer house. Noyce looked up at him and said very quietly You've got a nice family. I screwed up mine. Just stay where you are. 25 years and a successful company later, the entrepreneur had not moved. Robert Noyce had pioneered the integrated circuit, he founded Fairchild Semiconductor in Antel Corporation, and to boot is a pilot and champion skier. Not only that, he has just become only one of hundred and thirty people in the US history to receive the National Science Medal.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “During this time, this is right before Noise is going to resign as CEO, he's deeply depressed. So during this time, Noyce was also exhibiting signs of deep depression. Not only had the previous decade at Intel taken its toll in his emotional state, but even more so, his divorce and his impact on his children. Two of his children had gotten involved with drugs. One was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hospitalized, and another one of his daughters, was hit by a car and was in a coma for six months. On the outside, Bob dealt with these events with his usual denial, but inside there was no denying that something had gone terribly wrong with his family and that he was part of the cause. As reported by his biographer, Leslie Berlin, at a dinner for one of the recipients of an investment by Noise's Angel Fund, Bob unburdened himself in a way he rarely allowed.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “the councils which were made up of people already working on the line in the divisions that were affected would meet and work it out themselves. The councils moved horizontally, from problem to problem. They had no vested power. They were not governing bodies, but coordinating councils. I think that only works if you have a lot of smart, talented people. If you have a lot of smart, talented people, they're not going to want to be micromanaged. They're not going to want to move slowly. So having the structure and then making sure you're feeding that structure with the best talent to me is the only way Intel was able to keep this going So, one of the things I like about focusing on founders and companies in history, as opposed to covering some modern day founders or companies. So far, we've only covered.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “And then to me, that last part relates to the structure and the hierarchy of Intel's management at the time. So let's learn a little bit about that. At Intel, NOIS decided to eliminate the notion of levels of management altogether. He and Moore ran the show. That much was clear. But below them were only the strategic business segments, as they called them. They were comparable to the major departments in an Orthodox corporation, but they had far more autonomy. Each was run like a separate little corporation, middle managers at Intel had more responsibility than most vice presidents. They were also much younger and got lower back pain and migraines earlier. At Intel, if the marketing division had to make a major decision that would affect the engineering division, the problem was not routed up the hierarchy to a layer of executives who oversaw both departments. Instead,”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “And I think he was able to have that perspective because Intel had an insane focus on talent and maintaining their culture. So a few pages later, it says, Intel has always recruited the best technical talent it can find. Then drop them into a work environment that has little pity for human weakness, much less failure. The operative word would be performance. If you screw up at National Semiconductor, you're on the street. Do the same thing at Hewlett-Packard and you're taken aside to a private conference room and told you're having a little problem fitting in. At Intel, you're screamed at for not exhibiting the proper level of performance and the next day you're back on the job working twice as hard as ever to regain the respect of your peers and the matter is never mentioned again.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Okay, so let's skip ahead. I found this paragraph interesting. Like a concise statement on Bob Noyce's management style. Bob operated on the principle that if you suggested to people what the right thing to do would be, they'd be smart enough to pick it up and do it. You didn't have to worry about following up or anything like that.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Don't believe, or excuse me, I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer. It has been said that if in nineteen sixty five you had looked into the future using any traditional predictive tool, per capita income, life expectancy, demographics, geopolitical forces, etc., none would have been as effective a prognosticator, none a more accurate lens into the future than Moore's law. The trend Gordon Moore had identified was that the world of electronics from computers to military and consumer products was increasingly going digital, and thanks to the semiconductor planner fabrication process, it was possible to make the tiny digital engines at the heart of these products even smaller, cheaper, and denser, with transistors at an exponential rate. No human invention had ever exhibited that rate of improvement.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “The complexity for minimum component costs has increased, this is now Gordon Moore writing, the complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term, this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least ten years. This means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be sixty five thousand.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “As he would recall later, he pulled out a sheet of standard graph paper and plotted out the performance to price ratio of the last three generations of Fairchild integrated circuits. Even though he knew the specs on these devices, Moore was surprised to discover that the performance leaps between generations, especially from the third to the fourth, now in development of Fairchild, were so great and the hyperbolic curve they created were so vertical that he had already run out of paper. So he switched to logarithmic graph paper, and when he did the data points neatly arrayed themselves into a straight line, as he wrote in the article.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “integrated circuit which Noyce called a challenge to the future, he unexpectedly turned to the camera as if directly addressing millions of people at home throughout the nation and said Now let's see if you can top that one and smiled. From anyone else it might have seemed arrogant, but coming from Bob Noyce it was confidenced. The friendly challenge of one competitor to another on the playing field to top what he had just done. Bob Noyce was happy to beat the hell out of you. He lived for competition, so much that it often put both him and others at risk. But after he did, he helped you up, slapped you on the back, and told you how well you had done. Okay, so before we go a little deeper into Bob Noyce's personality, I want to talk about how his partner and co-founder created Moore's law. So, this is about Gordon Moore”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Noyce made you feel that while he would be in the lead it would only be because he was better suited for the job, as you were to yours. Steve Jobs by comparison invited you to change the world to accept his vision as your own, to join if he deemed you worthy, the select few creating a perfect, cool new reality, with the knowledge that if you ever faltered proved unworthy, or in some unknown way irritated Steve Jobs, that you would be jettisoned, shunned, and left behind. The difference of the two is best captured in the photos of Bob Noyce with his wide grin, and Steve Jobs with his tiny knowing smile. Ironically, while Job's zone would come to accomplish billions of people, it was Noyce's vision that was far more sweeping.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Comparisons have been made between the experience of being around Robert Noyce and the even more famous reality distortion field said to have surrounded his greatest accolyte Steve Jobs. In truth, they were very different. Noyce's appeal was warm and visceral. Jobs cold and ethereal. Noyce made you feel that important vital things could be accomplished if everyone could just steal their courage, ignore the risks, and move forward together toward a difficult but achievable goal.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “If you want to look more into Andy Grove. Go back to Bob's personality. He was a great scientist, in fact. A strong case has been made that he should have won two Nobel Prizes. One for the integrated circuit and the other for the tunnel dioid. But he turned his back on research to become a businessman, and not least, though he always professed his yearning to work in a small boutique company where he could escape bureaucracies and focus on the work he wanted to pursue, he built two huge companies, one of them among the largest in the world, and would never show any inclination other than to grow them as big as they could get.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “that demanded a certain pragmatic ruthlessness in dealing with the careers of subordinates yet he so wanted to be loved and admired that he was all but incapable of firing even bad employees Rather, he kept his hands clean but then let Charlie first Charlie Spork and then Andy Grove do the dirty work, and then wasn't it above treating them as corporate enforcers? So I tripped all over that, but Charlie Spork was basically the bad cop to his good cop at Fairchild Semiconductor. And then Andy Grove, who's famous in his own right, later the CEO of Intel, was the bad cop to Noyce's Good Cop. And Andy Grove, there's a lot of information about Andy Grove in this book. I've skipped over most of those parts because he wasn't technically a founder, even though he's employee number one. But he's known basically more for management as opposed to being an entrepreneur. He has a bunch of books that if you're interested more in management, they come highly recommended. High output management is one and the other one I think is called Only the Paranoid Survive. And there's plenty of information out there.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “So I want to skip ahead like we normally do. I don't really have reoccurring themes on these books, but if I do, it's definitely, I try to highlight as much as I can about the founder's personality. And so this section gives you a good idea of Bob's personality. Robert Noyce, a great man, but also a hugely complex, often contradictory personality. He was the smartest man in almost any room, and even in middle age, the best athlete. He was as everyone who ever met him, acknowledged hugely charismatic, yet also distant, private, and largely unknowable. He dismissed celebrity but took every opportunity to seize the limelight. He dismissed hierarchies and titles but never forgot his position at the top of the pile. And oddest of them all, he chose a career, entrepreneur”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “This relentless and unflagging pursuit and propulsion of the rapidly evolving world of digital technology at the most basic component level and a preservation of the law that the technology embodies, they're talking about Moore's Law, has been the story of Intel for more than forty years.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “It was also the start of another legend, this time of a very real company, the Intel Corporation. Intel would start with just a reputation of two men and within a generation sit at the center of the world's economy. The multi billion dollar corporation on which the entire electronics revolution would rest. In the process, it would invent and then build, by the billions, the most complex products ever mass produced. And it would accomplish this with an almost pathological adherence to a pace of change established by one of its founders that had almost no precedent in human history.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “which is trying to develop some product or technology which no one has yet done. To stay independent and small I might try to form a new company after a vacation. It was the end of the Fairchild Semiconductor of Legend, the greatest company that never was, this is back to the book now The more than one hundred companies that spun off from the mother firm would fill the valley with entrepreneurial fire and competitive fervor and would make the region the heartland of the digital age. It is argued that Fairchild Semiconductor had the largest concentration of talent in any history in Silicon Valley history.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “And you're building something that you're extremely passionate about. And then, of course, the successful products take off and eventually they build these massive organizations around them and then it becomes more of like a bureaucracy and more of like managing instead of innovating. This is also something I've noticed in interviews where people would sell their company and they'd be like, well, why'd you sell? And I'm like, well, the job I'm doing now is not the same job that I wanted to do and the one that I enjoyed. And that was the very beginning. So Bob continues here. My plans are indefinite, but after a vacation, I hope to join a small company in some area of high technology and to get close to advanced technology again in this manner if I have not been away too long. The limited resources of any small company will be a handicap, but I have no large-scale ideas. I do not expect to join any company which is simply a manufacturer of semiconductors. I would rather try to find some small company”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Is a direct quote from him. The reason for my resignation is more basic. As Fairchild has grown larger and larger, I have enjoyed my daily work less and less. Perhaps it is partly because I grew up in a small town, enjoying all the personal relationships of a small town. Now we employ twice the population of my hometown. More and more I have looked with longing to the earlier days of Fairchild semiconductor, when there was less administrative work and more personal creative work in building a new product, a new technology, and a new organization. I want to stop real quick. This is something I've noticed a pattern in a lot of these books that I'm reading on entrepreneurs and founders is they always long for like, if they ever look back and reminisce or have any sort of sense of nostalgia, it's this era when you're first starting out, when the company's small, it's just you and a small group.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “And a Nobel Prize winner, how the Nobel Prize winner was a terrible manager. So you might have heard of the Traders 8 that left Shockley transistors. Bob Noyce was one of them. They founded a company called Fairchild Semiconductor. But I'm going to start the story when... Bob decides to resign from Fairchild Semiconductor. So let's go to the book. In his departure letter to the Fairchild Board, Noyce opened his heart.”

    2017-06-20 · Founders · #8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source