“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
Why Andy is the canonical The Infrastructure Landlord
Intel's legendary CEO, Grove pivoted the company from memory chips to microprocessors, making Intel the foundation of the entire PC era. His doctrine of 'strategic inflection points' and relentless operational rigor defined how a landlord of computing's core infrastructure stays ahead of its own obsolescence.
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