C. Lester Hogan

American semiconductor executive who was recruited from Motorola to lead Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968 — at the enormous salary of $1M, shocking the industry — a hire that destabilized Fairchild just as Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore were preparing to leave to found Intel.

Represents the management disruption that accelerated Fairchild's decline and Intel's founding — the Hogan hire alienated Noyce and Moore enough to finalize their decision to leave — making him an inadvertent contributor to Silicon Valley's most important new company.