There are few modern business dramas that fascinate me as deeply as the fall of Intel.
And this from the company whose onetime CEO wrote Only The Paranoid Survive.
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Grove stopped his involvement with Intel at around 2005. Which means that it took only 15 years for Intel's moat to crumble (and boy did they have a moat when Grove stepped down — though he was in a board-only role for a few years before that).
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I'm skeptical that Grove would have been able to do enough to prevent this. Remember, his last major project at Intel was ProShare, which was a failure.
Intel missed the boat with software and networking. Craig Barnett, Grove's successor wanted to buy Cisco, but board rejected.
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