>So as the Andy Grove generation retired out
They had Patrick Gelsinger. But he was pushed out. You left with a Board lead by former CFO Andy Bryant, chooses a CEO that fits his taste.
It was all Politics.
They had Patrick Gelsinger. But he was pushed out. You left with a Board lead by former CFO Andy Bryant, chooses a CEO that fits his taste.
It was all Politics.
And this has trickled down since.
I would actually argue those two had strategy problem rather than execution. And those two had comparatively little politics / power play involved.
Intel has both, and politics.
The mantle passing to ballmer came at the objection of many major stock holders but some tiny cabal of gates et al overrode it. For years there were protests and threats that people would sell off millions if they didn't can him. There was substantial slippage and he lost all support and bounced, like Lee Iacocca except without any glory days