My buddy, Robert X. Cringely predicts that Intel will start to be irrelevant. I predicted that in 1999 when I walked out of the door in 1999. It started a few years earlier when Andy Grove stepped aside as CEO and appointed Craig Barrett CEO. I didn’t think that Barrett had a strategic bone in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Avram’s Past
The Lucky Years by David Agus
I don’t often write book reviews these days. In fact, I don’t often read books these days. For the last three years, I have been working on a project that I think will have an enormous impact on the quality of health for as much as 50% of adults 30-70 years old. I promise to … Continue reading
Why I am not an Angel Investor, Founder, Director or Advisor to early stage companies (except when I am)
General wisdom about investing in early stage companies suggests that for every 10 investments, only two companies do well. Let us assume that four of the ten return the money invested and four return nothing. If we invested a million dollars in each we will have invested ten million dollars in total. If two of … Continue reading
More than you will ever want to know: My 1:34 hour interview on The Internet History Podcast
The Internet History Podcast is a great site that I fully recommend. We should all be grateful to Brian McCullough who started the podcast, maintains it, interviews everyone and edits all the episodes. It is really a labor of love. Brian realizes that the very nature of the Internet does not result in a very good documentation about its … Continue reading
34 years of not Becoming Steve Jobs
Here I go again, writing about Steve Jobs. For the last 34 years, Steve Jobs played a role in my life, although not one of which he was particularly aware. This post is not really a review of the book “Becoming Steve Jobs”. Rather it is a discussion of my interaction/reaction with Jobs either directly … Continue reading
Previewing Avram TV: various interviews and more
I have decided to create a website where some various video and audio interviews, I have done, can be seen/heard. I am very lucky to have some of these interviews to share. Below is a preview of one such video. It was done by my good friend Bob Cringely author of I, Cringley, one of … Continue reading
Jean-Patrick Grumberg interviews Avram Miller on Net Neutrality
Periodically, my friend, Jean-Patrick Grumberg and I get together at a Cafe to chat. Jean-Patrick likes to work articles that he publishes on very successful French blog while having breakfast. I join him on occasions, but I just have coffee since I get up much earlier than he does (or maybe anyone else) and would … Continue reading
Secrets of Silicon Valley
I wanted to share this message I recently received via LinkIn. In 1992, I became the founding Chair of a non-profit called PluggedIn located in East Palo Alto CA. I served in that capacity for seven years until my resignation from Intel when I moved back to San Francisco. At that time, East Palo Alto … Continue reading
How I evaluate early stage companies
My blog originated when I realized that I was writing the same things to different people over and over again, only at different times. For instance, I found myself giving advice about Prostate Cancer to many men because I had been diagnosed and treated for this. Once I began blogging about prostate cancer, I could … Continue reading
Why I am getting a Life Coach
As some of you may know, I will turn 70 years old on January 27th. Becoming 70 is a pretty remarkable thing. It is hard to tell yourself that you are still middle age. Although having my father alive who, at almost 92, is active and healthy, does help. When I turned 69, I decided … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 