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How This Entrepreneur Rose From the Ashes to Challenge Silicon Valley

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

How This Entrepreneur Rose From the Ashes to Challenge Silicon Valley

After getting his PhD in applied physics at Stanford, Alex Lidow spent 30 years at International Rectifier (IR), a publicly traded chip company founded by his father Eric Lidow back in the 1940s.

Alex pioneered IR’s power management technology, co-authored the core-patents on which its business was built, became co-CEO with his brother, Derek, in 1995, and ran the company solo after Derek left to found market research firm iSupply in 1999.

Entrepreneur
By: Steve Tobak
March, 2016
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