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Linking to this will probably kill this guy's server, but there's an interesting flow chart of semiconductor company inheritance in the article: http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fairchild-sili...


It looks like there's a lot of Japanese and German names on that chart. I'm guessing they weren't there on H1-Bs.


American immigration means that last names are not great ways of determining nationality. My last name is German but I'm 5th or higher generation American.


Heck, people of German Descent are the majority in most places in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-An...


Coral cache: http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net/2010/08/fairc...

Although, it's hosted on wordpress.com, isn't it...


Steve Blank's got more than enough bandwidth and ever since optimized web servers (e.g., Nginx), you really have to try to kill a webserver with static content these days. I wouldn't worry about it.




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