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The rise and fall of Intel: from inventing the microprocessor to losing the mobile revolution. How Andy Grove's 'Only the Paranoid Survive' philosophy built a monopoly — and how Intel's successors abandoned it.
Canon
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Grove's 'Only the Paranoid Survive' is the stoic dichotomy applied to corporate strategy: you cannot control when disruption arrives, but you can control your state of readiness. Paranoia is the discipline of maintaining preparation.
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Intel was offered the iPhone chip contract and turned it down. The luck (mobile revolution) was available to Intel. The negative return came from a decade of underinvestment in mobile-appropriate chip design.