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Founders Notes: Andy Grove

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The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company David Senra So I want to skip ahead like we normally do. I don't really have like reoccurring themes on these books. But if I do, it's definitely -- I try to highlight as much as I can about the founder's personality. And so this section gives you a good idea of Bob's personality. "Robert Noyce is a great man, but also a hugely complex, often contradictory personality. He was the smartest man in almost any room and even in middle age, the best athlete. He was as everyone who ever met him, acknowledged, hugely charismatic, yet also distant, private, and largely unknowable. He dismissed celebrity but took every opportunity to seize the limelight. He dismissed hierarchies and titles, but never forgot his position at the top of the pile. And oddest of them all, he chose a career, entrepreneur that demanded a certain pragmatic ruthlessness in dealing with the careers of subordinates, yet he so wanted to be loved and admired that he was all but incapable of firing even bad employees. Rather, he kept his hands clean but then let Charlie -- first Charlie Sporck and then Andy Grove do

The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company David Senra So I want to skip ahead like we normally do. I don't really have like reoccurring themes on these books. But if I do, it's definitely -- I try to highlight as much as I can about the founder's personality. And so this section gives you a good idea of Bob's personality. "Robert Noyce is a great man, but also a hugely complex, often contradictory personality. He was the smartest man in almost any room and even in middle age, the best athlete. He was as everyone who ever met…

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