Andy Grove is known as "the man who democratized computing", "the man who put Intel inside" & "the motor for Moore's Law".

Just as Andrew Carnegie ushered in the steel age & John D. Rockefeller fathered the oil age, Mr Andy Grove, helped birth the computer age.

Grove was an organizational genius. His "High Output Management" is a management textbook. The first Grove book that I read, "Only the paranoid survive" gave me context for the state of the convolutions in the Yellow Pages directory business that I was involved in. Andy Grove's "OKR" drives not only Intel but also, Google & numerous Silicon Valley unicorns.

This post is an introduction to his legacy. Let's begin with some of his popular aphorisms.

  We’ll work on it together, until we get it right.
  Andy Grove

  Success breeds complacency. 
  Complacency breeds failure. 
  Only the paranoid survive.
  Andy Grove

   Leaders have to act more quickly today. 
   The pressure comes much faster.
   Andy Grove

   Just as we could have rode into the sunset, 
   along came the Internet, 
   and it tripled the significance of the PC.
   Andy Grove

Born András Gróf in Budapest, Hungary, Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grove immigrated to the United States in 1956-7, survived Nazi occupation & Soviet repression, studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, completed his Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley in 1963, was hired by Gordon Moore at Fairchild Semiconductor as a researcher & rose to assistant head of R&D. When Noyce & Moore left Fairchild founding Intel in 1968, Grove was their first hire.

Andy Grove became Intel’s President in 1979, CEO in 1987, serving as Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2005. Influential in technology & business, Grove wrote best-selling books & widely cited articles, speaking on an array of prominent public issues.

Grove moved Intel’s focus from memory chips to microprocessors, leading Intel's transformation into a consumer brand. Under him, Intel produced chips, like the 386 & Pentium, helping usher in the PC era. Intel's revenues increased from $1.9 billion to more than $26 billion.

Andy Grove

John Doerr on Andy Grove

1/ Last night Silicon Valley (and the world) lost a titan and freedom fighter. Andy Grove lived the maxim "execution is everything."

2/ Andy Grove was a towering leader, mentor, and educator. He was ruthlessly, intellectually honest. And rightly proud of building Intel.

3/ Andy Grove shared his greatest joy is family and being a grandfather. We're grateful for his life, and sorry for their loss. Ann & John

John Doerr, General partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, 'is passionate about helping missionary entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing." Doerr started in 1974 at Intel, just as the Intel 8080 microprocessor was being invented.

At Intel, Doerr worked in engineering, marketing, management & sales while learning operating excellence from Andy Grove.

Ben Horowitz on Andy Grove

Ben Horowitz, co-founder & general partner, Andreessen Horowitz

    The greatest thing about Silicon Valley's culture is you can ask someone 
     for help & they'll help you & won't expect anything in return. 
     Silicon Valley is fueled by ideas. And new ideas come from people 
     and new people often have nothing. 
     Ben Horowitz

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Just as Andy Grove did

Andy Grove is known as "the man who democratized computing", "the man who put Intel inside" & "the motor for Moore's Law".

Just as Andrew Carnegie ushered in the steel age & John D. Rockefeller fathered the oil age, Mr Andy Grove, helped birth the computer age.

This post is an introduction to his legacy. Let's begin with some of his popular aphorisms.

Andy Grove became Intel’s President in 1979, CEO in 1987, serving as Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2005. Influential in technology & business, Grove wrote best-selling books & widely cited articles, speaking on an array of prominent public issues.

Grove moved Intel’s focus from memory chips to microprocessors, leading Intel's transformation into a consumer brand. Under him, Intel produced chips, like the 386 & Pentium, helping usher in the PC era. Intel's revenues increased from $1.9 billion to more than $26 billion.

John Doerr on Andy Grove

1/ Last night Silicon Valley (and the world) lost a titan and freedom fighter. Andy Grove lived the maxim "execution is everything."

2/ Andy Grove was a towering leader, mentor, and educator. He was ruthlessly, intellectually honest. And rightly proud of building Intel.

3/ Andy Grove shared his greatest joy is family and being a grandfather. We're grateful for his life, and sorry for their loss. Ann & John

John Doerr, General partnerKleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, 'is passionate about helping missionary entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing." Doerr started in 1974 at Intel, just as the Intel 8080 microprocessor was being invented.

At Intel, Doerr worked in engineering, marketing, management & sales while learning operating excellence from Andy Grove.

Ben Horowitz on Andy Grove

Ben Horowitz, co-founder & general partner, Andreessen Horowitz

John Doerr, General partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, 'is passionate about helping missionary entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing." Doerr started in 1974 at Intel, just as the Intel 8080 microprocessor was being invented.