#7 Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce

Company: Intel

It is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation, which is the world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers, and a rapid innovators.

Year Founded: 1968

How their partnership was formed:

Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed as “the Mayer of Silicon Valley” is the inventor of integrated circuits or micro chips which revolutionized the computing world. Gordon Earl Moore, the author of famous Moore’s law, which made the micro chips to evolve in to something better every two years. Both were first employees of Fairchild semiconductors where they grew in to friends, sharing common passion for microchips. They founded Intel in 1968 in Mountain View, California.    

Why their partnership works:

Rober Noyce was credited for inventing microchip, and was the visionary, who had a drive for making computing better and easy. Gordon Moore had verve for technology too. Both of them complicated for each others talents, which lead Intel to cutting edge innovations.