Tensilica

He worked with Dolby Labs.

Then he did engineering sales support for several startup companies, moving up to bigger and bigger size startups until he got to Tensilica.

And then from Tensilica, he went to a company called Movidius.

which was one of the prime movers, startup companies in chip acceleration.

And a couple of years ago, Intel bought out Novideos.

And so I thought, this is a brilliant way to design chips.

I want to jump in and get into that.

And I went to go work for Tensilica as an audio systems engineer.

And the CEO is, in some cases, not somebody who was trained to be a CEO.

In fact, in both cases, it was Tensilica and then Sentera, both CEOs were first-time CEOs.

They were tech guys learning how to do it.

And then I learned.

So you sort of left those big companies next and went to work for some startups.

Yep.

Tensilica and Sentara that you mentioned.

So what did you learn at those companies that you have brought forward to your career at Arm?