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The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Biography
Berlin's biography of Robert Noyce—co-inventor of the integrated circuit, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel—is the definitive account of how the microchip was created and how Noyce's management culture became Silicon Valley's DNA. It covers the Traitorous Eight, the move from Boston to California, and the managerial innovations (stock options, flat hierarchies) that proved as consequential as the technology.
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Patrick Collison
Biography of the builder most directly responsible for the industry Collison operates in; covers both the technical invention and the organizational innovations that spread it.
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