[theandrewbailey]

Intel has made some risky moves and bad bets since he became an executive (1990?), and even further back when he was hired. Pentium 4, XScale, and Itanium come to my mind.

Intel hasn't been a tiny start up for decades. You can do many different things inside a large company that is in so many markets. Just because someone stays at the same company for their entire career doesn't mean that they were riding the gravy train the entire time.

[jronsomers]

You're hitting the nail on the head here. When I interned at Intel, they constantly said that even if you aren't happy in your current role once you are full time, you can always transfer teams and do something wildly different since the company is so large. So you can effectively 'job hop', but within the same company.