Andrew Grove
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Andrew Grove |
Dr.
Andrew Stephen Grove (born
September 2 1936 in
Budapest,
Hungary) is an
American businessman. He participated in the founding of
Intel Corporation and was a key driving force in its rapid success.
Grove was born "Gróf András István" (note: in Hungary, the family name comes first) to a middle-class
Jewish family. Growing up he was known to friends as "Andris". 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.
He earned a
bachelor's degree in
chemical engineering from the
City College of New York in
1960, graduating at the head of his class. After settling in California, he received his
Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley in
1963.
Grove worked at
Fairchild Semiconductor before becoming the fourth employee at the nascent Intel Corporation. He became Intel's president in
1979, its
CEO in
1987, and its Chairman and CEO in
1997. 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.
Grove and his wife Eva were married in
1958 and have two daughters.
*
Time Magazine's
Man of the Year (
1997)
* Graduated at the head of the engineering class from the
City College of New York in
1960.
*
"When TV first came, people tried to look at it as a radio with pictures. We're at the stage now where the Internet is TV with poor connections." (August
2001)
*
"A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done."*
"Only the paranoid will survive"*
Biography as given by Intel.com*
IEEE's legacies page* Book homepages -
Swimming Across,
High Output Management,
Only the Paranoid Survive*
TIME: Man of the year*
Interview with wired.com
