Gordon Earle Moore co-founded the paramount with Robert Noyce in July 1968, which is worth $204.16 billion, today. He pioneered the technological chronology and developed the ‘Moore’s Law’.
Innovation is the only thing that will keep the company vital. If we stop innovating, it won’t be long before we become the equivalent of the buggy whip industry
Self-claimed ‘accidental entrepreneur’, Gordon Moore is a PhD holder in Chemistry and minor in Physics from the prestigious California Institute of Technology. A lover of mathematics and chemistry also attempted his luck on the examination of solid rocket propellants used in the anti-aircraft missiles by the U.S. Navy, but soon switched to the private industry which was an ocean of research. A multi-billionaire pledged to give half his wealth to the noble causes along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet under ‘The Giving Pledge’ organization.
Birth: January 3, 1929, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Net worth: $10.2 billion
A visionary, an inventor, and a great philanthropist has many untold aspects of his life:
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important is having good fundamentals.
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