One of them was the shaggy-haired Grove.
"This is truly an unusual individual. Whoever hires him will be very lucky," Grove's thesis advisor wrote to Moore in 1963.
Grove's devotion to his work, from CCNY to Fairchild to Intel, has been the hallmark of his career. His determination to make his product the best and other products fail came in handy when Moore was looking for a successor--something both of them soon realized.
The Ultimate Manager
But the personal computer age had not caught on yet, so many companies did not yet realize the possibilities of the new silicon microchips.
Grove had his product and he could make it cheaply. He just had to sell it.
Grove traveled constantly, building factories and searching for investors, including his 1972 trip to Malaysia. He was driven by what seemed like a built-in success mechanism, one that led him to drive himself and Intel to the brink of total domination of the computer market--and the emerging global economy.
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