All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Wednesday, July 15, 2026
A former Intel executive believes the company's downfall was due to a shift in leadership from deeply technical individuals to business-focused executives. He argues that critical technical decisions, impacting billions, were no longer made by those with a strong engineering background.
“And, you know, I view one of the things that went off the rail was not started to be run by business people.”
“As opposed to technical people.”
“And, you know, if you have a business leader, who does he promote? Business leaders.”
“And when you're making these hardcore technical decisions that affect billions of dollars, you don't do that through a spreadsheet.”