Hard charging through disruption, Grove reshaped — again and again — technology industry
Few things in Andy Grove's life were easy, starting at a young age: As a boy in Budapest, he saw his father captured up by Germans during World War II, while he and his mother went into hiding under an assumed name. He became neary deaf at a young age. After that, he lived under Communist rule in Hungary, until finally coming to America in the '50s, where he learned to lip read English in order to pass university courses.
That kind of perseverance would serve him well through the ups and downs of being Intel employee #1 and later president, CEO, and chairman.