27 Jan
2012
27 Jan
'12
12:07 p.m.
On 27 Jan 2012 at 13:45, Dave McGuire wrote:
Wow, was he a common ancestor of the past two
decades of suits?
Davidow is an engineer who moved into marketing. From his Amazon
(yes, he wrote a book, "Marketing High Technology" about it) bio:
"William H. Davidow is a general partner with Mohr Davidow Ventures
in Menlo Park, California. Before forming this venture capital
firm,"he was senior vice president of sales & marketing for Intel
Corporation and shepherded the renowned Intel 8080 and 8086 to
success. Prior to joining Intel he was a marketing manager for
Hewlett-Packard's computer group. Davidow graduated summa cum laude
from Dartmouth College and holds a Ph.D. in electrical
engineering
from Stanford University. "
Go over to Amazon and read the excerpt--it's got a good view of the
Intel world in 1979. It always seemed to me that Intel wasted a lot
of time goofing around with memory modules for the IBM S/370 and the
like, while not attending to the bread-and-butter.
Davidow's not exactly a Carly Fiorina...
--Chuck