[Founder Notes] Bob Noyce

Charming, brilliant, warm. Jobs-esque, but kind. Kind of boring to read because he reads like he was just great at everything.

Always learning. "Intel learned to learn."

Never underestimate your opponents. Japanese companies were making copies of everything they could and then outcompeted Intel. Intel initially laughed, but years later nobody was laughing.

At Intel, if you messed up, you got yelled at, you worked harder, you fixed it, and then nobody dwelled on it anymore.

Bob Noyce's lifestyle expansion, by his own words, "messed up his family." Stay frugal.

— Jay