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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by coldtea on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:05PM (#17613345)
>Since there's a cult-of-personality around the guy, I think it's important to remind everyone that these behaviors are actually signs of poor leadership.

Yeah, such poor leadership that he founded 3 huge multi-100 million companies (Apple, NeXT, Pixar) and turned the third one to the largest company of earth from its near-bankruptcy at the time he returned to it.

Perhaps what's "poor leadership" or not should be correlated with actual results?

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by alsetmusic on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:11PM (#17613387)
> he founded 3 huge multi-100 million companies (Apple, NeXT, Pixar)

Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas.

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by coldtea on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:56PM (#17613688)
Nope, he got the "Graphics Group" team of Lucasfilm and turned it into Pixar.

The team had not done anything previously as Pixar.

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by alsetmusic on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:14PM (#17621776)
> Nope, he got the "Graphics Group" team of Lucasfilm and turned it into Pixar. > The team had not done anything previously as Pixar.

In which case it would be more accurate to say that he acquired and rebranded. But you said he founded Pixar, including Apple and NeXT in that statement, which sounds as though he launched Pixar from scratch.

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