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Introduction
And so I'm going to pause right in the middle of this before I tell you what Grant Gale does next, which changes the trajectory of Bob Noyce's life. He just doesn't know it yet. So there's a great line that Paul Graham had when he wrote this phenomenal essay, it's episode 314. It's called How to Do Great Work.
I'm just going to read a paragraph for you because we're about to see a great illustration of this in the life of Grant Gale and Bob Noyce now. So Paul Graham talks about the importance of making yourself a big target for luck. He says, when you read biographies of people who've done great work, it's remarkable how much luck is involved. They discover what to work on as a result of a chance meeting or by reading a book or a newspaper in this case, and they happen to pick up.