Dead Andy Grove, founder of Intel – The Republic

NEW YORK – Andy Grove, founder of Intel, has died aged 79. Came to the US from Europe after the war, he became one of Silicon Valley and “pioneers made the impossible possible, inspiring generations of entrepreneurs and business leaders,” as stated Brian Kraznich, Intel CEO.

The causes of death have not been disclosed but it is known that Grove was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. His name was Andras Grof. He was born in Budapest in 1936 by famiblia Jewish. He lived under a false name during the occupation of Hungary by the Nazis. Then the communist regime. In 1956 he fled to Austria, and the United States, where he graduated in chemical engineering at the University of California. In 1963, he began work at Fairchild Semiconductor, where he studied technologies which later would be used for the production of microchips. There he met Noyce and Moore, who in 1968 left the Fairchild to found Intel. Soon Grove joined them. In 1979 he became president of the company that had become the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world, in 1987, CEO in 1997 and chairman. The latter charge he kept until 2004.

Grove, who in 1997 was “Man of the Year” by Time , was also the author of the book Only the Paranoid Survive , its motto, which explains how to predict and overcome a business crisis. And mentor of big names in technology, including Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

His idea of ​​management was based on encouraging disagreements, we could say on mischief, and so sull’insistere employees were always vigilant against anything that might harm Intel. This led him to be moody and to demand a lot from the subject of which he thought did not give you enough. In 1981 he came to ask them to work two hours more per day for the same salary.

Her disappearance sparked the emotional reaction of so many prominent names in the industry. Beginning by CEO of Apple Tim Cook that he remembered as “one of the technological giants of the world”, man who “loved this country and embodied America at its best.”

“I liked working with him. It ‘was one of the greatest business leaders of the twentieth century, “said Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

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