traitorous
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The cycle goes back to at least the 1950s, when Fairchild Semiconductor, one of Silicon Valley’s earliest successes, was started by a group of disgruntled Shockley Semiconductor employees called the Traitorous Eight.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2019
The defectors came to be known as the Traitorous Eight, and though they hated the name, it became a rallying cry for a subsequent string of entrepreneurial betrayals that built Silicon Valley.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
Fairchild Semiconductor, as the Traitorous Eight’s new company was called, made its founders rich, introduced the phrase “silicon wafer” to the world, and trained a generation of computer engineers in the fine art of disloyalty.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
Traitorous, low-level employees can perform that dangerous chore.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2015
In view of the notorious sympathy of the Radical Clubs with France, Pitt proposed a Bill against Traitorous Correspondence with the enemy.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
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