The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
The first electronics company in Silicon Valley was Federal Telegraph , a tube company started in 1909 in Palo Alto as Poulsen Wireless. By 1912, Lee Deforest working at Federal Telegraph would invent the Triode , (a tube amplifier) and would go on to become the Steve Jobs of his day – visionary, charismatic and controversial.
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