Company · Semiconductors · founded 1968
Intel
Chip maker founded by two Fairchild co-founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.
Of the 6 people here linked to Intel, 2 are founders and 0 are still there. 3 of them also appear at Fairchild Semiconductor. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
6 people at Intel
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder; executive VP, president, CEO (1979-1987), chairman, chairman emeritus (from 1997), 1968
Source
· high confidence. The page is internally inconsistent on his CEO dates (text says April 1979 to April 1987; infobox says 1975 to 1987).
Semiconductors · Technology 3 / 0
Gordon Moore
Co-founder of Intel; author of Moore's Law
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder and first CEO, 1968
Source
· high confidence. First CEO 1968 to 1975; an encyclopedia.com biography dates his chairmanship from 1974 but gives no end date.
Semiconductors · Technology 2 / 0
Robert Noyce
Co-inventor of the integrated circuit; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Executive Past
Role
Third employee and first COO; director of engineering, president (1979), CEO (1987), chairman (1997), senior advisor (from 2004), 1968
Also at
Source
· high confidence. He gave up the CEO post in May 1998, stepped down as chairman in November 2004 and stayed on as a senior advisor; the page gives no end date for that advisory role.
Semiconductors · Technology 8 / 4
Andy Grove
Intel's third employee and longtime CEO; the operational architect of its shift from memory chips to microprocessors
middle-class · outsider · graduate degree
Executive Past
Role
Quality-assurance technician from 1979, then design engineer, 486 design manager, vice president and chief technology officer, 1979–2009
Also at
Source
· high confidence. Computer History Museum oral history (2019) confirms the October 1979 start. Wikipedia gives CTO from 2001 and his departure for EMC in September 2009.
Semiconductors · Technology · Software 4 / 0
Pat Gelsinger
Former CEO of Intel (2021 to 2024) and of VMware (2012 to 2021); lead architect of the Intel 80486
working-class farm family · outsider · graduate degree
Employee Past
Role
Engineer, then salesman, 1974
Source
· medium confidence. The page gives the 1974 start and calls him one of Intel's most successful salespeople; it gives no departure year or title. The 1980 end is implied by his move to Kleiner Perkins but is not stated for Intel.
Venture Capital · Technology 2 / 0
John Doerr
Venture capitalist; chairman of Kleiner Perkins
comfortable · well-connected · graduate degree
Employee Past
Role
Director of creative innovation, 2011
Source
· medium confidence. The page gives the January 2011 appointment and no end date.
Music 8 / 8
will.i.am
Founder, Black Eyed Peas; co-founder, Beats Electronics
public housing · outsider · no college
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3 shared: Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Andy Grove
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2 shared: Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce
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2 shared: John Doerr, will.i.am
Amazon
1 shared: John Doerr
Anthropic
1 shared: will.i.am
Beats Electronics
1 shared: will.i.am
Dropbox
1 shared: will.i.am
Google
1 shared: John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins
1 shared: John Doerr
OpenAI
1 shared: will.i.am
Tesla
1 shared: will.i.am