Tom Wolfe wrote “The Tinkering’s of Robert Noyce” http://web.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html http://web.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/n

Tom Wolfe wrote “The Tinkering’s of Robert Noyce” http://web.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html http://web.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html (discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133479 ) about the founding and early culture at Fairchild and Intel for Esquire in December of 1983 and updated it for Forbes ASAP fourteen years later as “Robert Noyce and his Congregation.” (Aug-25-1997) The updated version makes a much stronger connection between the flat hierarchy of the Dissenting Protestant churches and the egalitarian nature of many Silicon Valley startups.