Andrew Grove

Name: Andrew (Andy) Stephen Grove

Born: September 2, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary

Death: March 21, 2016 (Age: 79)

Computer-related contributions

• Hungarian-born Jewish-American businessman, engineer, author, and a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry.
• Former CEO of Intel Corporation and a pioneering figure in transforming the company into a giant. During his tenure as CEO, Grove oversaw an increase in Intel's stock value by 2,400%, making it one of the world's most valuable companies.
• He has been called the "guy who drove the growth phase" of the technology boom in Silicon Valley.
• Grove played a key role in negotiating with IBM to use only Intel microprocessors in all their new personal computers.

Significant publications

• Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices (1967).
• Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future (2002).
• Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases (2006).

Honors and awards

• IEEE Medal of Honor (2000).
• The IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, established in 1999, is named in his honor of his lifetime achievements.
• Time Man of the Year (1997).
• CEO of the Year, CEO magazine, (1997).
• David Packard Medal of Achievement (1993).
• J. J. Ebers Award (1974).

Quotes

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

"City College is the American Dream Machine."