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

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

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

Traitorous, low-level employees can perform that dangerous chore.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2015

One was known as the Traitorous Correspondence Bill, which, according to Lord Campbell, was suggested by Lord Loughborough, who had lately become Lord Chancellor.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke