EP448: TJ Rodgers - How To Make $1 Billion In Tech By Washing The Floors & Cleaning The Toilets
“At the end of my career, I didn’t do any of the sexy jobs. I scrubbed the floors and washed the toilets. There are crappy jobs that are hard to get good people into. Those things were essential to survive and extremely important and I couldn’t get anyone to do them.”
With a physics and electrical engineering degree, T.J. Rodgers worked hard and earned great success in the tech industry developing new technologies for AMD, attracting attention from Intel, and later by founding Cypress Semiconductors. But he truly earned his merit by using his time as CEO of Cypress (the longest standing CEO ever for a semiconductor company) to develop systems that dramatically improved internal operations including Human Resources, scheduling, quality, planning, and culture. He realized that these things were essential to the longterm survival of the company. He recorded his work in these areas and is here today to share the history and war stories that lead to their development.
TJ also shares his thoughts on the issue of AI; its benefits and limitations.
Expert action steps:
Write down the problems you’re having with your team in great detail. Then ask yourself if your actions are consistently moving int o the right direction.
Quality. We all know about quality of products but quality is more of a quality of life. It’s about how you write, think and interact with other people.
The effort to do things right has to be there. We don’t have the standard of excellence that we used to. Effort matters, working hard and going the extra mile will pay off for entrepreneurs.
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