The eight men were Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts. A core group of Shockley employees, later known as the traitorous eight, became unhappy with his management of the company. While Shockley was effective as a recruiter, he was less effective as a manager. Shockley then founded the core of the new company with what he considered the best and brightest graduates coming out of American engineering schools. At first he attempted to hire some of his former colleagues from Bell Labs, but none were willing to move to the West Coast or work with Shockley again at that time. In 1956, William Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California his plan was to develop a new type of "4-layer diode" that would work faster and have more uses than then-current transistors. The building at 844 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, California, where the first commercially practical integrated circuit was invented
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