In 1968, the company Intel was founded, by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. An ambitious Hungarian-born businessman, named Andrew Grove, joined the company on its commencement. Grove became Intel’s president in 1979, its CEO in 1987, and its CEO and chairman in 1997. Before Andrew Grove, computers were the size of a room. He helped to make computers into the way they are today. Without him, we wouldn’t have microprocessors which are the integrated circuits that power the central processing unit of a computer. People wouldn’t be able to have a personal computer without the microprocessor Intel invented. Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, and Andrew Grove are similar and different in many ways.
As well as being the CEO of Intel, Grove was also the “giant of the Silicon Valley”. He was a great mentor to many of the leading tech companies’ CEOs/past CEOs like Steve Jobs from Apple, Larry Ellison from Oracle, and Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook. In fact, Jobs and Ellison even tell him he is the only person they would willingly work for. Even though he was an excellent businessman and CEO and was unsurpassed at his job, he still was a little harsh with his employees. Grove’s hard-driving management
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Basically, he means to look forward in your life to use previous knowledge to assist you in the future. The example he uses in the speech is when he dropped out of college and took calligraphy class. This helped him make the Macintosh computer fonts. This was one of Jobs’ strategic thinkings. His goal was to be able to make the personal computer easy to use for everyone. As for Grove, he didn’t want to make Intel-brand computers like Apple and IBM. He reasoned there were too many companies in that business at that time so they should stay in microprocessing so they will become the most dominant microprocessor company. It worked too and they were the leading microcessor then and