I have tried to live my life in 10-year increments and would often say that ten years is long enough to do things like learn a new language but was not so long that you can feel that you can wait. So here I am at 75 years old (next month) learning a new language, … Continue reading
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Avram's Past / Finance / Intel
The relevance of Corp Venture Capital
I am Still Alive Several months ago, I was contacted by a contributor to Forbes, com, Gil Press. He was going to spend some time in Israel, where I live (mostly) and wanted to interview me about Corporate Venture Capital. Frankly, I was surprised that at this point in my life, anyone was interested in … Continue reading
Failing to help Intel after I left
Intel had been good to me, and I felt a responsibility to help the company even after I left. I offered help to Paul Otellini when he became CEO. Paul and I had been friends both at work and socially. I told Paul I would be willing to help in strategy issues and no one … Continue reading
Intel’s Board Fails at its most important task
I have personally served on dozen of boards. Five of these companies were public, Maxis, King World, CMGI, PCCW, and World Online. I have not served on a public company board since 2002. The majority of the boards were private companies. I resigned my last board position at the end of 2018. I don’t plan … Continue reading
A little bit of the book
Staying Alive I was seven years old when I began thinking about the universe and my own role in it. Staring at the ceiling in the Stanford Convalescent Home, in Palo Alto, I asked myself why I had such a weak body and such a strong mind. It’s terrifying when you can’t breathe, thinking you … Continue reading
Update on my book
I am very grateful for my successes as it has allowed me to speak freely of about my many failures. Status I am making a lot of progress and now have written about seventy pages so far. I expect the book will about be about 300 pages when finished. At first, I spent most of … Continue reading
Rereading Only the Paranoid Survive
At the suggestion of my friend, David Yoffie, I reread Andy Grove’s book, Only the Paranoid Survive, written in 1996 and I am glad I did. David, who is a professor at Harvard’s business school, served on the Intel Board of directors for almost 29 years leaving in May of 2018. David visits Israel several … Continue reading
