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Founders: #356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)

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What I learned from reading The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley by Tom Wolfe. Read The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael Malone with me. ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. You can search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- Build relationships with other founders, investors, and executives at a Founders Event ---- (1:00) America is today in the midst of a great technological revolution. With the advent of the silicon chip, information processing, and communications, the national economy have been strikingly altered. The new technology is changing how we live, how we work, how we think. The revolution didn't just happen; it was engineered by a small number of people. Collectively, they engineered Tomorrow. Foremost among them is Robert Noyce. (2:00) Steve Jobs on Robert Noyce: “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 ultim

[00:00:00] So the book that I want to talk to you about today is not a book. It is a long form article, long form piece written for Esquire magazine all the way back in 1983. It is very well known long form piece for those that study the history of the technology industry, specifically the history of Silicon Valley. It is called The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley. And it was written by Tom Wolfe. And I was reading it and rereading it in anticipation for another book, another biography on Bob Noyce that I'm going to, at the end of this, encourage you to…

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