ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cowboy, gymnast, “vertically challenged” hurdle track star, inventor of industry-wide chip manufacturing inventions, the founder and former CEO of Micrel Corporation, Ray Zinn’s approach to life and business led to fundamental evolutions in microchip technology that shrank mainframe computers into smart phones. He went against Silicon Valley’s addiction to venture capital and built an international microchip enterprise without outside investors. He suddenly became legally blind mere days before his company was to go public, yet he remained Micrel’s leader for another two decades.
Zinn is the founder, and for 37 years was the CEO ...
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