10. The History of Silicon Valley With Federico Faggin [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

The Silicon Valley, an area in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California, was commercially kicked off in the 1960s when William Shockley, leaving Bell Labs on the east coast, moved to California to start the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. The company ceased operations by 1960, and yet Shockley had put together a team of people that turned out to found the first wave of semiconductors company, which created the PC market, on top of which the whole Silicon Valley would be built.