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Andrew S. Grove escaped from Hungary to the United States in 1956 at age 20. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1960 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree, and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963.
After five years as a researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor, Dr. Grove participated in the founding of Intel Corporation, where he became, in succession, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer and, finally, Chairman. He stepped down as Chairman in 2005.
Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices, as well as High Output Management and Only the Paranoid Survive. He received a number of honorary degrees and other honors. He was named Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1997, and received the IEEE 2000 Medal of Honor, and the 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Strategic Management Society. In 2004, he was named the Most Influential Business Person in the Last Twenty-Five Years by the Wharton School of Business and the Nightly Business Report.
He chaired the Campaign for UCSF which raised $1.6B, and was active in cancer and neuroscience research through his private family foundation. He died aged 79 in 2016.
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On Writing by Andrew Grove, chairman of Intel and author of Swimming Across.
I have been in the public eye because of my business role for quite some
time. Most of this time I have resisted getting into my personal background. All
of that changed when Time magazine chose me to be "Man of the Year" in 1997
and, in the process of collaborating with the magazine staff on a profile they
wrote, I found it very difficult to resist their inquiries into my childhood
years.
What happened as a result surprised me. Once I broke the boundary separating
my personal history from my public messages, I found myself not only willing,
but also intrigued about delving into my youth. This intrigue became close to a
mandate with the birth of my grandchildren. It dawned on me that I might be too
old to tell them my story by the time they were old enough to understand it. So
with the idea of setting down in my own words at my own pace, the story of my
young years emerged.
I went about the process of mining my memory by letting nature take its
course. I would drive or run or go about other aspects of my normal life and
when some scene from my first 20 years floated through my mind, I would reach
out, grab it and make myself a note on ...
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