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Really don’t see how this changes things inside Intel. Pat Gelsinger is not new to Intel at all. This is just playing musical chairs.
by hehehaha 6y ago
Really don’t see how this changes things inside Intel. Pat Gelsinger is not new to Intel at all. This is just playing musical chairs.
- totalZero 6y agoPat was fairly effective at VMW. The fact that he himself is not new to Intel is probably beneficial for the company, but there's a pretty substantial difference between being CTO and actually steering the ship. I'm not comparing Gelsinger to Steve Jobs in a general sense, but Jobs wasn't new to Apple when he returned -- and yet Jobs' return to leadership was transformative for the company.
- hehehaha 6y agoI see a lot of parallels between what happened at Boeing and now at Intel. It’s a cultural phenomenon and I am not convinced Pat is going to shake things up. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he literally fired most, if not all, of management consulting types. He changed the culture overnight. I don’t see that happening at Intel (but I hope I am wrong).
- JohnJamesRambo 6y agoOnly in the incestuous world of CEOs does being "fairly effective" at your last job grant you the keys to one of the biggest companies in the world.
- ghaff 6y agoYou could argue that VMware was slow to move into containers and should probably have better leveraged Pivotal before they drew them in. The former is something of an innovator's dilemma thing. The lack of focus on developers and applications was something of a VMware blind spot going back to Diane Greene days. But "fairly effective" underplays how well VMware has done over the past 10 years or so overall. There are things they should have been more aggressive about, especially with the benefit of hindsight, but they've been a very successful software company/subsidiary.
- newsclues 6y agoIf it puts a focus on Engineering leadership, it could work.