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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
7 Sept 2021 Acquired TSMC
“Here’s Morris’s quote on this, “Mark Sheppard, then Chairman and CEO of TI, agreed with the prevailing wisdom at the time that a good manager could manage anything. In this case, I think he was wrong.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 7 Sept 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- TSMC
Transcript context
…Different set of competencies, though, like marketing. Yeah. Here’s Morris’s quote on this, “Mark Sheppard, then Chairman and CEO of TI, agreed with the prevailing wisdom at the time that a good manager could manage anything. In this case, I think he was wrong. I found the consumer business to be very different,” like you’re saying, “The customer set, completely different. The market, completely different. And what you need to get ahead in that business is different too. In the semiconductor business, it’s just technology and costs; in consumer, technology helps, but it’s also the appeal to consumers, which is a nebulous thing.” Not Morris’s strong suit, at least not anything he’s trained in. That makes total sense.…
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