Episode 1: First Burn

Episode 1: First Burn

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Where underdogs DO become heroes.

A narrative audio series told firsthand by someone who lived it — the frontline workers, women and men, who built Silicon Valley's semiconductor industry from the ground up in the 1970s, and the fifty-year throughline connecting their story to today.

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