Founders · Jul 18How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
It funded the startup with an option to buy it for $3 million within eight years. It exercised the option in 1959, and each of the eight got $250,000 in stock.
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Fairchild Camera and Instrument
Sherman Fairchild's company that funded the eight defectors and later bought their startup.
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