Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
From Arthur Rock
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
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.
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.
And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
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