Andy Grove in 2006: ‘What I’ve Learned’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/03/grove-2006-interview
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/03/grove-2006-interview
"Grove, still serving as CEO during Intel’s zenith in 1997, didn’t even have an office. He worked out of an 8x9-foot cubicle."
This was never really true. While he had himself assigned a cubical like everyone else, he worked every day in a conference room which he used as his office.
It never made sense that the CEO of a company wouldn't have a regular place to have private conversations, anyway. It was always a ridiculous fiction.