Intel CEO 1987-1998, author of Only the Paranoid Survive
Strategy
When one force grows 10x, the industry changes shape. Grove says the frontline sees it before the CEO does.
it is so big that it can distort the picture and what tends to happen at times like that is that the very nature of the industry changes
Andy Grove
ran the test and left. Intel pioneered semiconductor memory, and when Japanese manufacturers became a 10x force in it, Grove exited the business the company had invented. A real inflection point does not respect what you are known for.
found the opposite pattern in the companies that made the leap. They picked the one intersection of what they could be best in the world at, what drove the economics and what they cared about, then said no to everything outside it for decades.
