Swimming Across
by Andrew S. Grove
Intel's Andy Grove on his childhood in Hungary: surviving the Nazi occupation as a Jewish boy, the Soviet era, the 1956 uprising and his escape at twenty. Quiet, precise and moving; the source of his famous paranoia.
Read it if…
you have read Grove's business books and want the origin of the man.
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Skip it if…
you want business lessons; there are none stated.
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Three things you will actually use
- Survival teaches vigilance.
- Luck and action both mattered.
- Starting over is possible.
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Read it and then reread Only the Paranoid Survive.
Our verdict
Grove's origin.
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