Jerry Sanders

Leadership Lessons: Jerry Sanders, Former CEO of AMD

Leadership Lessons: Jerry Sanders, Former CEO of AMD

Within the cutthroat environment of Silicon Valley, where creativity and ego often clash, Jerry Sanders, the colorful and confrontational co-founder and longtime CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), left a legacy that not only marked his company but also the semiconductor industry as a whole. Between the founding of AMD in 1969 and his retirement…