SPECIFICALLY, WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHEN INVESTMENT WILL RETURN

“The era of trickle-down investing is over…. We have to use self-generated cash to pay for our advertising and our infrastructure. We have to worry about return and about investment.”

Intel chairman Andy Grove, on Intel’s new don’t-call-us-we’ll-call-you approach to venture capital, News.com, 12 October 2000