165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2021-02-01
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“A new company ought to make its first product something with a broad range of customers and uses, and something within its…”
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Focus
“Noyce argued against the decision, and tensions grew quickly.”
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People
“Just as he had set himself up against Brattain and Bardeen at Bell Labs, he now exhibited the same behavior against his…”
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Persistence
“If you just read th-this one chapter and absorb all the ideas and then avoid them, realize, "Hey, this guy made a…”
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Capital
“And this is gonna give us an indication, like how valuable was the time, all the money and time and resources you're…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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