Michael Malone's 1984 account of the early Silicon Valley — tracing the founders of HP, Intel, and the semiconductor industry through the personal stories of their founders — one of the first serious histories of the Valley.
Created the first comprehensive portrait of Silicon Valley's founding generation — the Hewlett-Packard model, the Fairchild spin-offs, the formation of the venture capital industry — making it the primary historical account of how the Valley was built.
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