Avram Miller - The Intel Guru

Avram Miller is best recognized for co-founding Intel Capital, the computer industry's most successful corporate investment organization. While at Intel, he was Vice President of Corporate Development. Miller was a major influence behind the creation of residential broadband, which was a crucial component in the development of today's internet. Miller had a good career in medical science before moving into high tech.

Miller has served on a variety of company boards in both high tech and health care since leaving Intel in 1999. He has advised and invested in a number of early-stage businesses. He currently resides in Tel Aviv and travels widely across the globe.

Avram Miller discusses how intuition, imagination, humor, and risk-taking enabled him to become one of Silicon Valley's pioneers and leading venture investors in his new book, The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology. He recounts his journey from childhood illness and an inability to function in the educational system to becoming a top executive at one of the world's leading technological firms.

 

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

2:58 Avram's family migration story and childhood in San Francisco

6:54 Growing up in a Jewish family

8:14 Avram's background and history with science and technology

13:27 How Avram managed to work in two different industries without formal training

16:10 Why Avram switched from the medical field to the computer field

17:43 Avram's time and breakthroughs at Intel

23:41 Importance of engagement with the Jewish community throughout Avram's life

29:54 Talking about The Flight of a Wild Duck

30:34 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

31:37 Some advice for kids and parents

34:21 Moving to Israel and current experience over there

34:49 Audiogram 2 - Israel

37:24 What's next for Avram

 

Connect with Avram Miller:

Website: http://www.avrammiller.com/bio.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avram/?originalSubdomain=il

Twitter: https://twitter.com/avrammiller

Blog: https://twothirdsdone.com/

 

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