Over the last month, I have been doing many interviews to help promote my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, published on September 1st. One of my favorite interviews was . It is long but lots of fun. Most of my interviews have been enjoyable, but this one has a super amount of energy … Continue reading
Category Archives: Intel
IBM PC 40th Anniversary
My book The Flight of a Wild Duck, will be published on September 1st. Pre Orders can be placed now on Amazon. There were several sections of the book which did not make it through the final editing primarily because they broke the flow of the book. One of them was about the evolution of … Continue reading
My book, The Flight of a Wild Duck is now available for pre-order on Amazon
My book is now available for pre-order but only for ebooks at this moment. If you enjoy my blog then I think you will really appreciate my book. If you plan to read the ebook, I would great if you would pre-order now. This will help me a lot. If you want paperback or hardback, … Continue reading
Andy Grove Demonstrates early Cable Modem as well as ProShare -PC Expo 94
In conducting extensive research for my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, I recently came across a video of Andy Grove doing the Keynote at PC Expose in 1994. The title of the his speech was “The Ubiquitous PC.” This was at a time that most thought that it would be the TV and … Continue reading
Goodbye and thanks Doug Semon
When I decided to write a book about my high tech journey, I had several objectives. One of those was to document the creation of residential broadband in which I played a leadership role. I wanted to tell my personal story, but I also wanted to make sure that the people who contributed to its … Continue reading
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
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
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
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My book in the making
Below is a description of sorts about I book I am working on. It is actually a great deal of work as I have to conduct a lot of research and assure its accuracy. Now, I need some feedback. I am concerned that the companies, people and events may not be relevant to today’s readers. … Continue reading
Drinking the kool-Aid (how billions were lost creating PDAs)
As I try to decide if I should write a book, I have been reading or rereading various books about the computer industry. I just finished Jerry Kaplan’s Startup, written in 1995. Jerry founded GO Corporation in 1987 to develop pen-based computers, and I still think the book has value today for those starting technology-based … Continue reading
