The Traitorous Eight originally referred to the grandfathers of Silicon Valley. In 1957, 8 talented PhDs employed by notoriously difficult Nobel Prize winner William Shockley left to establish Fairchild Semiconductor. Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Eugene Kleiner, Sheldon Roberts, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni, Jay Last were young American patriots who became legends by building the tech industry as we know it.
The “Fairchildren” helped start many iconic companies like Intel, AMD, and Kleiner Perkins over their illustrious careers. They launched the flywheel of the Silicon Valley moonshot factory. California’s middle class blossomed because they created high paying jobs for Americans and recognized they were stewards of a nation, not extractors of an economic zone. A golden age prevailed over economic cycles. Many generational founding teams like the Paypal Mafia can trace their lineages back to these 8 legends. All of this creativity, innovation, and wealth was generated without mass migration.
By Yuri Bezmenov
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