Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock
Arthur Rockis an American businessman and investor. Based out of Silicon Valley, California, he was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 August 1926
CountryUnited States of America
Arthur Rock quotes about
american-businessman background mean realize scientific
Well, you got to realize that I have no scientific background so, you know, all the scientific mumbo jumbo doesn't mean a lot to me.
american-businessman good turns
I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.
american-businessman business decided ibm
IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
american-businessman
I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
absolutely along american-businessman came offer somebody xerox
Xerox came along and, you know, as, as they say in The Godfather, or somebody said, they made us an offer we absolutely could not refuse.
american-businessman became board chairman hundred intel invested investor lead thousand
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.
money people building
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
appreciated possibility semiconductors
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
people investing
And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
mean people guides
People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.
apples boards killing
Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
years cost four
The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.
mother father glowing
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
mean corporations paper
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.