To: tcmay who wrote (167194 ) 6/28/2002 7:02:21 AM From: Amy J Respond to Hi Tim, Albert Yu was incredibly hardworking, very smart, and remarkably honest, but you could go to any Silicon Valley party awhile ago and hear the incredibly vocal complaints regarding a project that could have almost taken the Intel of today down. He wasn't directly in charge of this project, but he had the misfortune of managing the exec who was, that apparently kept him out of the loop by months. This particular exec is no longer at Intel, but he managed to fool the VCs into thinking he was a good exec, went to a startup and got it funded (ironically, most likely on the basis of his title at Intel, so-called window dressing for vc's), and is now competing with Intel. (I'm not worried about his company, their valuation is getting lower, it'll probably whither out in a couple of years, but of course, probably after he has had a chance to run safely to a different startup after securing capital from a different set of VCs.) Self-promotion to VCs to the point of lying is not only considered acceptable by some self-promoters, but also by some powerful high-tech investors and directors. Hopefully, companies will be motivated to start giving courses on ethics and the value of it.
