The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“They were copier-heads who had no clue about what a computer could do,” he said of Xerox’s management. “They just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry.”109 In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atana

Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,

“I looked at all the crusades people could join, to find out how I could retrain myself.” What struck him was that any effort to improve the world was complex.

“I have always thought that idealistic people are interesting, but kind of boring and scary.”143 Torvalds admitted to “not exactly being a huge fan” of Stallman, explaining, “I don’t like single-issue people, nor do I think that people who turn the world into black and white are very nice or ultimately very useful. The fact is, there aren’t just tw