Texas Instruments: Seismic Oil Hunting, the Speak and Spell and the TI-84
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Texas Instruments began in 1930 as Geophysical Service Incorporated, which set off dynamite and ...
19 Okt 23min
TSMC: Morris Chang's Rejected Foundry Pitch, 2nm Chips and Arizona Delays
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1986 Taiwan's government recruited industry veteran Morris Chang, then in his mid-50s, to bui...
19 Okt 23min
Sun City, Arizona: A Ghost Town Site, Pinwheel Streets and a Feedlot Case
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 1959 the Del E. Webb Development Company paid over $20 million for 20,000 acres of the M...
19 Okt 19min
Stripe: Thiel and Musk Seed Money, a Layoff Duck Email and a PayPal Bid
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in Palo Alto in 2010, when accepting pay...
19 Okt 18min
Stephen Ross and Related: A $10,000 Loan, Columbus Circle and Quantum Shore
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stephen M. Ross started in 1972 with a $10,000 loan from his mother, founding Related Housing Co...
19 Okt 18min
M60 Tank: A T-54 in a Budapest Courtyard, Glass Armor and the Starship
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In November 1956, Hungarian rebels drove a captured Soviet T-54A into the courtyard of the Briti...
19 Okt 24min
Port of Singapore: Hornbill Casques, Raffles' Free Port and Driverless Tuas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 13th century the kingdom of Singapura sat on the north bank of the Singapore River, ...
19 Okt 19min
William Shockley: Polygraphs, a Four-Layer Diode and a Lab Near His Mom
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Shockley earned his undergraduate degree at Caltech and a physics PhD at MIT in 1936, th...
19 Okt 22min
