Five Minutes with TJ Rodgers, Founder and CEO, Cypress Semiconductor

March 6, 2015

TJ Rodgers is well known amongst the Silicon Valley circles. Actually, the casts a far wider shadow than that, often proceeded by his reputation. I got to spend five minutes with TJ, and we discussed the things he's most proud of, and some of the things he'd like to have a chance to go back and re-do. I even got TJ to discuss his reputation as a guy who likes to "tell it like it is."

 
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