Andrew Grove
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Andrew Stephen Grove (b. 02 September 1936) is a Hungarian-born American businessman and scientist. He was one of the earliest employees of Intel and ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.
BiographyEarly life and educationGrove was born Gróf András István (in Hungary, the family name is first) to a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. Growing up, he was known to friends as "Andris". At the age of four, Andris was diagnosed with scarlet fever. The disease was nearly fatal, and while he survived, he suffered significant hearing loss as a result. In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, he left his home and family under the cover of night and emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York in 1957.[1] Grove and his wife Eva were married in 1958 and raised two daughters. Grove earned a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1960, and earned the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. CareerGrove worked at Fairchild Semiconductor before becoming the third employee at the nascent Intel Corporation. He became Intel's president in 1979, its CEO in 1987, and its Chairman and CEO in 1997. Grove is credited with having ushered in the modern computing industry, turning Intel from a manufacturer of memory chips into the world's dominant producer of microprocessors. During his tenure as CEO, Grove oversaw a 4,500% increase in Intel's market capitalization from $18 billion to $197 billion, making it, at the time, the world's most valuable company.[2] He relinquished his CEO title in May 1998 and remained Chairman of the Board until November 2004. Grove continues his work at Intel as a senior advisor. While Grove was, in fact, Intel's third employee, he received employee number four by clerical error. Leslie Vadasz was hired by Andy Grove and received employee number three by virtue of the same clerical error. Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Moore were the co-founders of Intel, along with six others who left Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce claims to have been the catalyst of the group, and some suggest that the relaxed culture at Intel was a carryover from Noyce's style at Fairchild. Grove, on the other hand, was fiercely competitive, and he and the company became known for his guiding motto: "Only the paranoid survive". Noyce was essentially anti-competitive, even to the extent that, as Tom Wolf in "Hooking Up" points out, all spaces in the parking lot were fair game, first come, first served. This difference in styles reputedly caused some degree of friction between Noyce and Grove. Honors and achievements
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