Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.
And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
