Andy Grove

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ben Horowitz · said 49 times in 23 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Everything said about Andy Grove, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Horowitz: Intel CEO Andy Grove personally wrote up employees with messy desks
“He would get to work early in the morning, and if your desk was messy, he'd write you up, like Andy Grove would write you up and tell you clean up your desk”
Ben Horowitz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:22 a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Hastings: Andy Grove's 'only the paranoid survive' maxim breeds delusion and distraction
“Only the paranoid survive. That was Andy Grove's quote. And the problem with that is it over, it encodes the truth in a way, but it oversimplifies, because the paranoid are delusional. They see crazy things all the time, ok? And business isn't that easy. You d…”
Reed Hastings Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:47 a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Horowitz: CEOs ignore leading indicators of bad news, heeding only good news
“CEOs only listen to leading indicators of good news, never leading indicators of bad news, only lagging indicators of bad news.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:41 a16z Podcast | Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤ CFO
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Opinion
Horowitz: High Output Management is the best business book
“Very early in my career, I read a book called High Output Management by Andy Grove, and I, you know, I thought it was the best book I'd read in business.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:00 a16z Podcast | On Mentors and Mentees
Aug 2, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Hungarian emigres from Budapest laid foundations for American semiconductor industry
“So the, exactly that same area generated the American semiconductor industry with the so-called, so-called Hungarian mafia at Intel which like Andy Rove and Les Vides and a whole bunch of those guys.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 1:19:55 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
May 8, 2026
Insight
Horowitz: Industry leaders set the ethics and morality for the sector
“My old mentor, Andy Grove said to me, he said, Ben, when you're a leader in an industry, then the whole industry the size of it, the ethics of it, the morality of it kind of depends on you.”
Ben Horowitz May 8, 2026 ▶ 1:24 Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
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