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.

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Raymond D. Zinn canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
entrepreneur
podcast host
awardReceived Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame induction NERFINISHED
various entrepreneurship and leadership awards
basedIn San Jose area
coFounded Micrel NERFINISHED
education Brigham Young University NERFINISHED
San Jose State University NERFINISHED
employer Micrel NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork business leadership
entrepreneurship
semiconductor technology
founded Tough Things First, Inc. NERFINISHED
gender male
hasActivity advising startups
public speaking on leadership
hasPerspective focus on ethics in business
long-term orientation in company building
hasPodcast Tough Things First Podcast NERFINISHED
hasRole mentor to entrepreneurs
podcast host of Tough Things First
hasWebsite https://toughthingsfirst.com
hasWritten business leadership books
entrepreneurship books
industry semiconductor industry
knownFor bootstrapping Micrel without venture capital
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 NERFINISHED
Zen of Zinn NERFINISHED
Zen of Zinn 2 NERFINISHED
occupation author
chief executive officer
engineer
entrepreneur
placeOfActivity Silicon Valley NERFINISHED
positionHeld Chairman of Micrel
Chief Executive Officer of Micrel
residence California, United States
surface form: California

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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.
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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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Robert N. Noyce Award hasAwarded Raymond D. Zinn