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Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:16 David Rosenthal We're about to hit Fairchild and Intel.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:57:34 Ben Gilbert National Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, Texas Instruments.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 10:47 Ben Gilbert I mean, you have all of the post-World War II defense spending that went in, particularly on the West Coast, with the innovations from Stanford, but has Fairchild Semiconductor been started yet?
- ▶ 14:48 David Rosenthal Well, no, then he was at Raytheon, and then he joined Fairchild.
- ▶ 14:51 Ben Gilbert Fairchild, okay.
- ▶ 14:54 David Rosenthal Fairchild.
- ▶ 18:09 David Rosenthal Don Valentine figures out the same thing and jumps to Raytheon and then to Fairchild.
- ▶ 18:52 David Rosenthal So we talk a lot about, you know, Fairchild and the Trader's Eight, Silicon Valley, blah, blah, blah, you know, the place to be.
- ▶ 20:12 David Rosenthal So, Bob Noyce, like I was saying a minute ago, is credited, you know, when he was at Fairchild, inventing the integrated circuit and all that.
- ▶ 20:32 David Rosenthal Gordon Moore, who was also, you know, at Fairchild and then founder of Intel along with Noyce, he would coin Moore's Law.
- ▶ 33:36 David Rosenthal This is right when Intel's getting founded, so screw Fairchild, screw National, screw, like, TI is kicking all of their butts, and it's thanks to Morris.
- ▶ 33:45 Ben Gilbert And interestingly enough, the reason I always thought that Fairchild was sort of so successful in those days was out of all the defense spending and research that was being done at Stanford, the government as a customer,
- ▶ 34:09 David Rosenthal Fairchild's killing it.
- ▶ 52:14 David Rosenthal TI and Intel and everybody like, you know, at Fairchild, they're international, they're leading the way.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:01 David Rosenthal Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore are only just leaving Fairchild Semiconductor to start Intel.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14:19 Ben Gilbert And of course, Shockley is a predecessor to Fairchild Semiconductor, which is a predecessor to Intel.
- ▶ 1:14:51 David Rosenthal He was the head of sales at Fairchild Semiconductor and the head of sales at National Semiconductor.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:22 Mitch Lasky Because these guys were like the Fairchild Semiconductor of
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 2:12:58 David Rosenthal But you compare that to like the Silicon Valley, like what came out of Intel, what came out of Fairchild, what came out of the Trader S.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 39:03 Ben Gilbert It was funding veterans of the Cisco's of the world, uh, and, and, you know, the, the Fairchild's of the world who had designed, you know, five chips before to go start a new company and build the sixth chip of their life, you know, in…
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:15 David Rosenthal Let's see, Fairchild had already started, I think, and Silicon Valley was, like,
- ▶ 27:23 David Rosenthal It was a man named Wilf Corrigan, who was previously the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor.
- ▶ 27:35 Ben Gilbert So is that how Don, cause Don Valentine obviously was the biggest investor in, or Sequoia was, in LSI Logic, and he, did he know him from Fairchild?
- ▶ 28:15 David Rosenthal So Wilf says, uh, remember he was at Fairchild, he said, like, he knows
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:40 Brendan Eich The traitorous aide at Fairchild, he looked at the China Lake Sidewinder, the first practical heat-seeking missile development.