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Intel CEO's faces questions of conflicts of interest between Intel and startups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218817

Is there a non-subscription link to read on this? (Note: My comment below is without reading the article.)

Honestly, to me, one of the most exciting aspects of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO of Intel is actually spinning in his US startup portfolio. To use the old John Doerr quote, "No conflict, no interest!"

But my hope is that Intel becomes a successful operating business. I'm still not convinced that the Chairman of the Board of Intel doesn't want to break it up in a "part out" deal. And I'd strongly suspect that the media focus here is part of a larger fight.

Until the board of directors that oversaw the disastrous 10 years of Intel is fully replaced, Lip-Bu Tan's "Conflicts" are great things in my book.