An Evening with Legendary Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock

[Recorded May 1, 2007]
A 1951 graduate of Harvard Business School, Arthur Rock began his career as a security analyst in New York City before joining the corporate finance department of Hayden, Stone & Co. In 1957 he worked with Alfred "Bud" Coyle to raise financing from Sherman Fairchild to found Fairchild Semiconductor, the company that established Silicon Valley as a world center of innovation in integrated circuit technology.
Mr. Rock moved to California in 1961 and formed a partnership with Tommy Davis. Together they invested $3 million and returned $100 million to their investors. After establishing his own firm, Arthur Rock & Co in 1968, he worked with Fairchild co-founders Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce to launch Intel Corporation, the largest, and by many measures, the most successful semiconductor company in the world today. He notes that "It was one of the few times that I helped start a company that I absolutely knew in my own mind was going to be a big success. I raised the money just on the telephone in something like two days."
Arthur Rock served as Intel's first Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Based on this experience he has proclaimed Rock's Law, a corollary to Moore's Law, which says that "the cost of capital equipment to build semiconductors will double every four years."
Mr. Rock also invested in and held early stage board positions at pioneering scientific computing company, Scientific Data Systems; at Teledyne, which grew into one of the most successful technology conglomerates in the history of American business, and at Apple Computer. He has contributed to the local community by supporting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Opera, and the California Institute of Technology. In 2003 he donated $25 Million to establish the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. Professor of Business Administration Howard H. Stevenson says "Arthur Rock is part of the history of American business and entrepreneurship.
Catalog Number: 102703154
Lot Number: X4795.2009

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legend

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Interview starts at 10:15

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He was Steve Job's archenemy, according to some accounts..

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No. he was with Dan Valentine the first venture investor in Apple Computer. Steves archenemy was Scully.

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he was behind all important Scully's decisions

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jjpcondor all board members were behind Scully. i just sead he was not his archenemy.

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well, Arthur has moved all strings, he was an éminence grise

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that was just in the movie

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Arthur Rock me la pela!

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BOB NOYCE > ROCK , ALWAYS !!!

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Build some think stronger then … good luck

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Damm BULLSHIT DOG

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Vulture capitalists.