The late Apple founder Steve Jobs, who oversaw the rollout of world-changing innovations like the iPhone, preferred to spend his time with an earlier generation of inventors like Intel's Andy Grove and Robert Noyce, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor. He explained why to historian Leslie Berlin.
"I wanted to smell that second wonderful era of the valley, the semiconductor companies leading into the future. You can't really understand what is going on now unless you understand what came before," Jobs told her for the Silicon Valley history Troublemakers.
