Adapting Episode 3: Intel

When you think of Intel today, you probably think of the
microprocessor company. Maybe you also think about about 'Intel
Inside' and their famous jingle. You might even think "big,
stable, boring public company". But for the first two decades of
Intel's life, absolutely none of those things were true. Today we
tell the incredible story of how the company that started it all
in Silicon Valley clawed back from a crisis that brought them to
the brink of death, and of one man who rose as the ultimate
survivor to become their leader and a legend even in his own
time: the late, great Andy Grove.





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Sources:


Only the Paranoid Survive: 
 https://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challenge-ebook/dp/B0036S4B2G

Swimming Across:
 https://www.amazon.com/Swimming-Across-Andrew-S-Grove-ebook/dp/B07CJRM4DX/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce


 https://www.businessinsider.com/alan-patricof-greycroft-ipo-market-2011-1


 https://anthonysmoak.com/2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-move-from-memory-to-microprocessors/


 http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_386_Business_Strategy/102701962.05.01.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley


 https://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/remembering-andy-grove-intel.html