person1936–2016

Andrew S. Grove

Disciplines:

Summary

Hungarian-American businessman — co-founder and CEO of Intel — who coined 'Only the Paranoid Survive' and created the OKR management system — the most operationally excellent technology CEO of the semiconductor era.

Core Contribution

Creates the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) management system — Grove's High Output Management introduced OKRs to Intel, and John Doerr brought them to Google; every major technology company now uses some variant of the framework; it is the most influential management innovation from any technology company.

Key Spikes & Highlights

Escaped Hungary at 20 with $20 after the 1956 Revolution — arrived in New York speaking no English, worked as a waiter, completed a chemical engineering PhD at Berkeley, and became the CEO of the world's most important semiconductor company; his immigrant-to-technology-CEO arc is the most complete version of the American dream in Silicon Valley
Fought prostate cancer by researching the medical literature himself and designing his own treatment protocol — his article about his prostate cancer research (in Fortune, 1996) was the most influential patient-driven medical analysis by a non-physician in popular journalism, anticipating by decades the patient-led research movement

Notable Works & Achievements

High Output Management

Only the Paranoid Survive

Swimming Across

Historical Influences

Robert Noyce Gordon Moore Military strategy

Intellectual Lineage

Budapest, Hungary Technical University of Budapest Escaped Hungary UC Berkeley Intel

Contemporaries & Peers

Gordon Moore Robert Noyce John Doerr

Minds Influenced

Technology management

Intellectual Posterity

Intel OKR management system Only the Paranoid Survive High Output Management Andy Grove as technology management model

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Andrew S. Grove

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person1936–2016

Andrew S. Grove

Disciplines:

Summary

Core Contribution

Key Spikes & Highlights

Escaped Hungary at 20 with $20 after the 1956 Revolution — arrived in New York speaking no English, worked as a waiter, completed a chemical engineering PhD at Berkeley, and became the CEO of the world's most important semiconductor company; his immigrant-to-technology-CEO arc is the most complete version of the American dream in Silicon Valley
Fought prostate cancer by researching the medical literature himself and designing his own treatment protocol — his article about his prostate cancer research (in Fortune, 1996) was the most influential patient-driven medical analysis by a non-physician in popular journalism, anticipating by decades the patient-led research movement

Notable Works & Achievements

High Output Management

Only the Paranoid Survive

Swimming Across

Historical Influences

Robert Noyce Gordon Moore Military strategy

Intellectual Lineage

Budapest, Hungary Technical University of Budapest Escaped Hungary UC Berkeley Intel

Contemporaries & Peers

Gordon Moore Robert Noyce John Doerr

Minds Influenced

Technology management

Intellectual Posterity

Intel OKR management system Only the Paranoid Survive High Output Management Andy Grove as technology management model

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Andrew S. Grove

Ask anything about Andrew S. Grove — their ideas, influences, contradictions, legacy.