Andrew Grove
Andrew "Andy" Stephen Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel Corporation. He escaped from the Hungarian People's Republic during the 1956 revolution at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education. He was the third employee and eventual third CEO of Intel, transforming the company into the world's largest semiconductor company.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- University of California, BerkeleyCity University of New York
- Awards
- 🏆 Time Person of the Year🏆 IEEE Medal of Honor🏆 California Hall of Fame
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'…"
"Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers."
"And try not to get too depressed in the part of the journey, because there’s a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can’t motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have t…"
"The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life."
"Each company, ruggedly individualistic, does its best to expand efficiently and improve its own profitability. However, our pursuit of our individual businesses, which often involves transferring manu…"
"By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaot…"
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Timeline
1936
Born
Birth2016
Died
Death
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