26 Facts About Andy Grove

Andy Grove escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education.

Andy Grove was the third employee and eventual third CEO of Intel, transforming the company into the world's largest semiconductor company.

Andy Grove has been called the "guy who drove the growth phase" of Silicon Valley.

Andy Grove's father was arrested and taken to an Eastern Labor Camp to do forced labor and was reunited with his family only after the war.

Andy Grove later changed his name to the anglicized Andrew S Grove.

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Andy Grove summarized his first twenty years of life in Hungary in his memoirs:.

Andy Grove earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York in 1960.

Andy Grove joined on the day of its incorporation, although he was not a founder.

Andy Grove worked initially as the company's director of engineering, and helped get its early manufacturing operations started.

Andy Grove was appointed Intel's president in 1979, CEO in 1987, and then chairman of the board in 1997.

In May 1998 Andy Grove relinquished the post of CEO to Craig Barrett, as Andy Grove had been diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years earlier, though he remained chairman until November 2004.

Since then Andy Grove remained at Intel as a senior advisor, and has been a lecturer at Stanford University.

Andy Grove reflected back upon Intel's growth through the years:.

Andy Grove is credited with having transformed Intel from a manufacturer of memory chips into the world's dominant producer of microprocessors for PC, servers, and general-purpose computing.

Andy Grove helped create the Intel Architecture Laboratory in Oregon to ensure that software was developed in time to take advantage of their new microprocessors.

Andy Grove became known for his guiding motto: "Only the paranoid survive, " and wrote a management book with the same title.

Andy Grove explained the causes and effects of many business's growth plans:.

Andy Grove was in the minority of high-tech leaders when he advocated taxing internet sales made to other states: "I don't think electronic commerce needs federal or state subsidies in terms of tax advantages, " he told a Congressional committee in 2000.

Andy Grove wrote over 40 technical papers and held several patents on semiconductor devices.

Andy Grove wrote Only the Paranoid Survive, a business book, whose core message is that a company in pursuit of a stronger competitive advantage never rests.

Andy Grove taught graduate computer physics courses at the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In 2005, Andy Grove made the largest donation that the City College of New York has ever received.

Andy Grove was instrumental, as a key fundraiser, in establishing the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay Campus, the largest ongoing biomedical construction project in the world.

Andy Grove promoted general surgery initiatives and supported various obstetrics and gynecology research programs.

Andy Grove was a longtime member of the International Rescue Committee, along with being one of its overseers and a member of its board of directors.

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Andy Grove was the founding supporter of the IRC's Pathways to Citizenship program.