Great investor in Silicon Valley

Manh Tuan

After more than 50 years of experience in the market, through his investment programs, Arthur Rock has actively contributed to the development of the technology industry in the United States, and also created a wealth of fish assets. multiply 1 billion USD.

For most business people, especially US investors, Arthur Rock's name has become so familiar to a wide range of high-end investment programs in high-tech industries in Silicon Valley.

50 years attached to the profession

Famous as one of the successful entrepreneurs and pioneers in the field of investment in the US today, Arthur Rock has had 50 years of attachment to the profession. Arthur Rock was born on September 18, 1926 in Rochester, New York, USA in a family of Russian origin residing in the United States.

From a young age, Arthur Rock has proved to be a smart, hard-working person in his studies and subjects that Arthur Rock is the most passionate about nature. After graduating from high school, Arthur Rock was on the way to enlist in military service.

During his military years, despite having to live in a military environment with 'steel discipline', training courses in harsh conditions, in return, Arthur Rock built a lifestyle of discipline and iron will. Every time facing difficulties in life.

Returning to the civilian life, Arthur Rock immediately took the entrance exam to Syracuse University and majored in business administration. With the ambitions cherished by Arthur Rock about his later business career, in 1948, after graduating from Syracuse University, Arthur Rock decided not to work immediately but instead continued to study a master's degree program. economics at Harvard University.

During his years at Harvard, in addition to focusing on studying the topics in the program, Arthur Rock followed closely and studied carefully the economic investment activities in the US market. Thanks to that, Arthur Rock has accumulated for himself very important knowledge right from the first step into business.

After 5 years studying at Harvard, in 1951, graduating with a master's degree in economics and a wealth of knowledge, Arthur Rock applied to work for Wall Street Hayden Stone & Co. Although being a newly graduated employee and has not had much time to practice in the field of investment, but after a probationary process at the company, with his extensive knowledge of the investment field, Arthur Rock has been assigned by the company leader to take charge of analyzing the investment situation and risks.

Years of working at Hayden Stone & Co, along with the early successes in his undertaking, Arthur Rock has been able to have a lot of exposure to problems from large to small, from reasonable to inconsistent. reason of the investment field and draw valuable experiences for yourself.

While working at Hayden Stone & Co, Arthur Rock also started to participate in a number of small investments in the banking sector, in addition to the company's corporate affairs. While investments in this period are still very small, Arthur Rock has begun to earn extra income, and has created relationships with several companies looking for executives for investment projects. .

The change came when Hayden, Stone & Co invited Arthur Rock to take over the investment program at the high-tech mining project. By his precise calculations, Arthur Rock has directed projects to develop and exploit semiconductor technology, one of the areas of strong development and also the strength of Silicon Valley science.

After only a short time, Arthur Rock helped Hayden, Stone & Co gain great success in the investment project and was elected to be a member of the company's Board of Directors.

Pioneer in investment

Entering the career with small investments, but with his talented mind and bold steps, Arthur Rock has gradually expanded its investment programs and continuously achieved success.

Entering the career with small investments, but with his talented mind and bold steps, Arthur Rock has gradually expanded its investment programs and continuously achieved success.

By his analytical ability, Arthur Rock found that, with the rapid pace of development in the high-tech sector in Silicon, the potential for exploitation would be great if invested properly. From those calculations, Arthur Rock decided to leave Hayden, Stone & Co and began planning his own investment programs.

However, to make those calculations, if Arthur Rock alone is difficult to succeed because there is not enough financial strength. Therefore, in 1961, receiving an invitation to join a cooperative program to invest in the development of semiconductor technology by investor Tommy Davis, Arthur Rock accepted and the two began to establish Davis Investment Company. & Rock.

From the strong financial resources of the company plus the experience that has been involved and successfully built many previous investment projects, Arthur Rock has made Davis & Rock a place after being established. Only prestige for investment projects.

One of Arthur Rock's first large-scale investments successfully implemented was the investment program and solved the difficulties for the semiconductor technology development project called Shockley. This is a joint project of Noyce and Gordon Moore engineers with investor William Shockley and research semiconductor technology development called Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories.

However, because the financial resources were not enough to support the project activities, it was only a year since its inception, 8 key engineers working at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories had intended to leave the work to set up your own company.

Difficulties pile up more difficulties and the project is going to the brink of bankruptcy, then one of the members of the project after a while of searching desperately the financial resources from the banks that reached Arthur Rock . Very sensitive to investment programs, soon after receiving an invitation to invest, Arthur Rock saw the development potential of the project and he directly flew to California for negotiations and signing. investment contract.

Playing as one of the strongest industries with great potential for development, after acquiring Arthur Rock's reasonable investments, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories has consistently got successful research projects. Semiconductor and transfer to manufacturers.

From the huge income of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories, Arthur Rock has gained significant profits. Not only at what has been achieved, in the following years, Arthur Rock has also successfully implemented 35 projects investing millions of US dollars in Silicon Valley businesses like Anadex Instruments, Inc., General. Capacitor, Astrodata, Teledyne, Benrus Watch Co, Scientific Data Systems (SDS), Max Palevsk .

At the end of these investment programs, Arthur Rock has built a strong reputation in the investment market and a strong financial source. In order to reach larger-scale private investment programs, Arthur Rock decided to set up his own company named Arthur Rock & Co - one of the first investment companies in the coast. West America.

Constantly expanding

Arthur Rock & Co was founded in 1968 by Arthur Rock, headquartered in San Francisco and one of the earliest investment companies in the western United States.

After its birth, under the direct management and administration of Arthur Rock, Arthur Rock & Co has become an effective investment tool in leading American corporations and companies in Silicon Valley. like Intel Corporation, Apple Computer Inc, Scientific Data Systems, Teledyne.

Also in 1968, Noyce, Moore and Andy Grove - American businessmen formed a partnership with the company named Intel. The goal of the team members is to direct Intel into manufacturing semiconductor devices used in memory of computers. In order to give the company a strong finance and a leader in semiconductor technology, Noyce invited Arthur Rock to join the investment.

After a series of successes, investing in semiconductor technology has become a strength and also the forte of Arthur Rock. Arthur Rock agreed to join the program with an initial investment of $ 2.5 million. From the beginning, Arthur Rock and his team members directly sketched out the company's operating model, with his talent and prestige, he was elected to be the first president of the company. Intel.

After coming into operation, Intel has made great leaps and bounds and has now risen to one of the world's leading IT and semiconductor technology groups.

It can be said that Arthur Rock's career and success are always associated with investment projects. After the successes at Intel Corporation, Arthur Rock continued to make investments in major Silicon Valley technology companies and corporations such as Teledyne, Scientific Data Systems, Apple Computer, General Transistor and Diasonics.

With his accurate calculations of development ability as well as risk of investment projects, Arthur Rock has achieved great success in the business. Many people, including successful entrepreneurs like Larry Mohr or Palevsky, have commented: 'Arthur Rock is a capable judge, with just a moment of observation, Arthur Rock can be immediately established. ie clear analysis of the ability to invest in a business, including a newly established business and can also immediately implement an investment program '.

Well known as a successful businessman, Arthur Rock is well known for his remarkable contributions to the cause of the country's talent. Most recently, Arthur Rock has donated $ 25 million to Harvard Business School MBA - Arthur Rock School has studied - to build an Investment Research Center called Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

With this non-profit investment program, Arthur Rock hopes to ' train many talents in the investment field, creating new technologies for the world and at the same time contributing to solving employment problems for workers '.