Intel Corp (INTC)

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EP -
That's a great question - Compared to Hector, Eckhard Pfeiffer is Lou Gerstner. While I think most people would agree that Ben Rosen was a little quick on the trigger to fire three of the 4 founders (Gary Stimac remained, creating the ProLiant server line which was not a bad little product), Pfeiffer was not totally responsible for either the Tandem or DEC purchases - that honor goes to the dynamic duo of former DEC rejects, Earl Mason and John Rose, who I think had only their own self interest in mind. However, I was a big beneficiary of the Pfeiffer era - I first bought in to CPQ not long after Pfeiffer was made CEO, and rode it for a 10X gain over the next 5 years.

Hector, on the other hand, made even Jerry look like a genius.