Raymond D. Zinn
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Raymond D. Zinn is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of semiconductor company Micrel, recognized for his leadership and contributions to the semiconductor industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raymond D. Zinn canonical | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ podcast host ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame induction
NERFINISHED
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various entrepreneurship and leadership awards ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Jose area ⓘ |
| coFounded | Micrel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education |
Brigham Young University
NERFINISHED
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San Jose State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Micrel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business leadership
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entrepreneurship ⓘ semiconductor technology ⓘ |
| founded | Tough Things First, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
advising startups
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public speaking on leadership ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
focus on ethics in business
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long-term orientation in company building ⓘ |
| hasPodcast | Tough Things First Podcast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
mentor to entrepreneurs
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podcast host of Tough Things First ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://toughthingsfirst.com ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
business leadership books
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entrepreneurship books ⓘ |
| industry | semiconductor industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bootstrapping Micrel without venture capital
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co-founding Micrel ⓘ emphasis on profitability and frugality in management ⓘ longest-serving CEO of a publicly traded semiconductor company in Silicon Valley ⓘ people-first leadership philosophy ⓘ serving as CEO of Micrel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tough Things First
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Zen of Zinn NERFINISHED ⓘ Zen of Zinn 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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chief executive officer ⓘ engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Silicon Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Micrel
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Chief Executive Officer of Micrel ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Raymond D. Zinn Description of subject: Raymond D. Zinn is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of semiconductor company Micrel, recognized for his leadership and contributions to the semiconductor industry.
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