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Andrew Stephen Grove (born 2 September 1936) is a Hungarian
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
-American
United States

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 businessman and scientist. He was one of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the X86 architecture series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers....
 and ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.

e was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
, Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
. Growing up, he was known to friends as "Andris". At the age of four, Andris was diagnosed with scarlet fever
Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever is a disease caused by an exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes. The term Scarlatina may be used interchangeably with Scarlet Fever, though it is commonly used to indicate the less acute form of Scarlet Fever that is often seen since the beginning of the twentieth century....
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Andrew Stephen Grove (born 2 September 1936) is a Hungarian
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
-American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 businessman and scientist. He was one of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the X86 architecture series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers....
 and ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.

Biography


Early life and education

Grove was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
, Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
. Growing up, he was known to friends as "Andris". At the age of four, Andris was diagnosed with scarlet fever
Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever is a disease caused by an exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes. The term Scarlatina may be used interchangeably with Scarlet Fever, though it is commonly used to indicate the less acute form of Scarlet Fever that is often seen since the beginning of the twentieth century....
. The disease was nearly fatal, and while he survived, he suffered significant hearing loss as a result. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he left his home and family under the cover of night and emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in 1957. Grove and his wife Eva were married in 1958 and raised two daughters.

Grove earned a bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
 in Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science , with mathematics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms....
 from the City College of New York
City College of New York

The City College of The City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning....
 in 1960, and earned the Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
 in 1963.

Career

Grove worked at Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor

Present day Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is a spin-off company resulting from reconstitution of assets in National Semiconductor....
 before becoming the third employee at the nascent Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the X86 architecture series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers....
. He became Intel's president in 1979, its CEO
Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking Corporate title or Administration in charge of total management of a corporation, company, non-profit organization, or government agency, reporting to the board of directors....
 in 1987, and its Chairman and CEO in 1997.

Grove is credited with having transformed Intel from a manufacturer of memory chips into one of the world's dominant producers 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. 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 L. Vadász
Leslie L. Vadász

Leslie L. Vad?sz is a Hungarian people-United States engineer and Management, one of the founding members of Intel Corporation.He moved to the United States in 1961, first working for Fairchild Semiconductor....
 was hired by Andy Grove and received employee number three by virtue of the same clerical error.

Robert Noyce
Robert Noyce

Robert Norton Noyce , nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip....
 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 Wolfe 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

  • Strategic Management Society's Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
  • IEEE 2000 Medal of Honor (2000)
  • Time Magazine's Man of the Year
    Person of the Year

    Person of the Year is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."...
     (1997)
  • Industry Week's Technology Leader of the Year (1997)
  • CEO magazine's CEO of the Year (1997)
  • AEA
    American Electronics Association

    AeA is a nationwide Non-profit organization trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry and is dedicated solely to helping our members? top line and bottom line....
     Medal of Achievement award (1993)
  • IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition award (1987)
  • In 2003 he was inducted into Junior Achievement's U.S. Business Hall of Fame.
  • In 2006 he made a 26,000,000 USD donation to City College of New York
    City College of New York

    The City College of The City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning....
    , the largest donation ever made to that school.


Books


Books written by Andrew Grove

(originally published in 1983)

Books about Andrew Grove


Quotes

  • "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."
  • "A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done."
  • "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."
  • "Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers."
  • "Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
  • "You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure."
  • "Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"
  • "It is easier to seek forgiveness than to ask permission."


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