Friskies is the largest cat food brand at Purina, and as the brand team looked at the explosion of cat videos they wondered how their brand could play a role.
To create the point-contact transistor, Shockley's team modified the cat's whisker by placing two fine metal wires close together on the surface of a germanium crystal, turning it from a diode into a triode.
The show features Huh and a group of his team members at the startup, mostly from the content editorial team who sift through the thousands of cat photos.