In Memoriam Andy Grove

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Schumpeter | The Man Who Put Intel Inside; Andy Grove, who died on March 21st, was at the heart of the computer revolution. Economist, Mar 26, 2016.
http://www.economist.com/news/bu ... volution-andy-grove

Quote:

"And just as Carnegie and Rockefeller worked their magic by building organisations rather than inventing new products, Mr Grove, though a brilliant technologist, worked his by building Intel from a startup into the world's dominant semiconductor firm. Like Carnegie and Rockefeller, he built huge plants employing thousands; but whereas they [Carnegie and Rockefeller; NOT Intel employees] flaunted their wealth and power, Mr Grove laboured in a cubicle no different from those of his employees.  Mr Grove's genius was as an organisation-builder and manager rather than as an innovator.

"Possessed of a fierce work ethic, he drove his subordinates as hard as he drove himself. * * * He joined Intel in 1968 as its first employee, after it was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.

Like Mr Gordon Moore, "Mr Grove was also a technologist but, to the surprise of many who knew him, he turned himself into a management genius, supplying Intel with drive and discipline and turning it round when it got into trouble.

Note:
(a) "IN HIS book, 'Giants of Enterprise,' Richard Tedlow of Harvard Business School argues" America America produce business titans, Italy opera composers, and Russia novelists.

Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise; Seven business innovators and the empires they built. Harper 2003.
(b) About quotation 2. The en.wikipedia.org, in Web pages for Intel and "Andrew Grove" counted him as the "third employee" (1968) -- that is both pages counted the two founders as the first two employees.

(c) "A succession of competitors in Japan, South Korea and China tried to topple Intel. * * * He masterminded Intel’s switch from memory chips to microprocessors"
(i) Japan did, in memory chips and Intel switched to microprocessors. Intel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
("In 1983, at the dawn of the personal computer era, Intel's profits came under increased pressure from Japanese memory-chip manufacturers, and then-president Andy Grove focused the company on microprocessors. Grove described this transition in the book Only the Paranoid Survive")
(ii) Not S Korea or China, though. Not Taiwan, either (TSMC and Intel have different business models).

(d) "A childhood bout of scarlet fever [at age 4: en.wikipedia.org] left him almost deaf. (His hearing was corrected in middle age after several operations.)"

Scarlet fever is one of infectious diseases (along with meningitis, mumps and measles) that causes sensorineural [ie nerve] hearing loss, as opposed to conductive hearing loss (in middle ear, for example).

(d) "He fled to America in 1956 when the Soviets invaded his homeland [Hungary] * * * He graduated at the top of his class in chemical engineering [a bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1960] * * * took a PhD in the same subject at the University of California, Berkeley. * * * Mr Grove’s career is also a testimony to America’s ability to spot merit even if it comes in the oddest of packages. Grove was not an obvious catch in 1963. He then spoke with a strong Hungarian accent. He adopted the manners of a resident of radical, mid-1960s Berkeley. By his own admission he was a 'hotheaded 30-year-old running around like a drunken rat.' ")
(i) He left Hungary in 1956 all right, age 20, by crossing into Austria on foot. He then arrived in US as a refugee in 1957. See Andrew Grove
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
(1936 – 2016; section 1 Early life and education)
(ii) City College of New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_College_of_New_York
(is the oldest of City University's twenty-four institutions of higher learning; Established 1847)
(iii) Why 1963?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
( He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York in 1960 [age 24], followed by a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 [age 27])

(e) in memoriam
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/de ... english/in-memoriam