Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Intel - From Inventors of the CPU to Laughing Stock [Part 1]" video.

  1. Fairchild was the start of Silicon Valley. It wasn't the start of the start up culture. That goes back 850 years to the start of commercial banks then termed money lenders. One could even argue that it really goes back to the start of capitalism 3000 years ago where individuals would go into business for themselves selling food, wares or services en masse. Like, everyone did it. Fairchild didn't invent start up culture, it was itself a part of start up culture. Certainly start up culture was around in tech long before Fairchild. Think Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, etc. All either their own start ups that turned into famous ground breaking companies that are still with us today
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  2. You're misunderstanding history @MrSpying247 . When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he did so with his friend and business partner Thomas Watson who was at the receiving end of the first ever telephone call. It took place at the University they both worked at. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were originally friends. They formed a company together and started working on electricity. They later had a fight and went their separate ways, with Nikola Tesla forming his own company. They met at a university. Indeed, money lenders, the precursor to the entire modern banking and financial sector started as groups of friends and landowners who got together to pool their resources in order to offer loans, promissory notes and early banking services. In fact, mate, I can't think of any company or organised business in history that didn't start as a few friends or associated parties trying something new. The new world HR management policies have nothing to do with Fairchild. That's a generational thing that started because millennials thought they could get more productivity and skills retention out of their employees if they provided them relatively cheap but ultimately shallow perks. The concept wasn't even invented in the USA. It's simply an acknowledgement that millennials are childlike and if you distract them you can abuse them more as employees. So again. Fairchild started silicon valley. They didn't invent start up culture.
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  3. What do you mean Intel has fallen behind technologically? Let's be clear, AMD hasn't done anything overtly revolutionary. Their performance is still very much measured against Intel as the gold standard. Intel had the potential of getting into trouble, so they shifted course with a new CEO BEFORE they got left behind and lost their place at the top. It's a mistake to misrepresent what's going on here
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