Word: groves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lucky or good?" It's one of the first questions you'll get from Grove. He was lucky enough to escape Hungary; good enough to make it to the U.S. Lucky enough to find ccny; good enough to graduate first in his class. Lucky enough to join Intel; good enough to lead it to the top. Lucky enough to marry Eva and have two healthy daughters; good enough to raise them, dancing and smiling, into beautiful American women. That's the kind of life it's been. Andrew Steven Grove, TIME's Man of the Year 1997: lucky, good, paranoid...
...hard to define the components of greatness, but surely survival is among their number. And Andrew Grove has always been, if nothing else, a survivor. From that terrifying night (or a hundred equally terrifying nights spent eluding the Nazis), Grove, 61, has been pushed by a will to live as other men are fired by a taste for power or money. Intel, the firm that Grove built, has survived in one of the most tumultuous industries in history, emerging to become one of the most powerful companies of our age, with a stranglehold on one of the transformative technologies...
Intel, of course, has done much more than survive. Founded in the summer of 1968 by Gordon Moore (one of the great chemists of the century) and Robert Noyce (a co-inventor of the integrated circuit), it has blossomed under Grove's leadership into the world's pre-eminent microprocessor manufacturer. From a standing start in 1981, when IBM introduced the first personal computers, they have populated the planet at an astounding rate. And of the 83 million machines sold this year, nearly 90% get their kick from an Intel chip. So do antilock brakes, Internet servers, cell phones...
Intel has ceased being just a Silicon Valley wonder. It has become a weather vane for an entire digital economy, a complete ecosystem of drive manufacturers, software houses and Web programmers whose businesses depend on escalating PC growth. Because Grove and his firm control the blueprints of the PC, he is in the unique position of being able to tell customers what to do. Intel sets release dates for new chips, dictating the pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists...
...Grove's dogma of relentless change and fearless leadership echoes from IBM in Armonk, N.Y., to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He is a perennial cover boy for the business magazines. Yet, he insists in his usual point-blank locution, "I haven't changed." He is a protective father of two daughters (he has asked us not to reveal their names or occupations), a spirited teacher (his Stanford business-school course is an annual sellout) and, almost incidentally, is worth more than $300 million. His 5-ft. 9-in. frame--honed by hourlong morning workouts, coiled...