Intel's Otellini confesses in Folsom

Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini’s visited Folsom to celebrate Intel’s 20 (actually 21) years in Folsom, California. (See Treowth here.) Mr. Otellini was ten years into his Intel career when the Folsom campus opened.

Otellini was hired the same day as Tom Dunlap, an engineer who later became general counsel; and Harold Hughes, who helped jumpstart Intel Capital and is now the CEO of Rambus.

Popular with employees for his internal blog – sorry no link to Otellini’s blog, but see Treowth here – Otellini had his moments during his days at the Folsom campus. Folsom Life reports:

Although Otellini assured employees he never skinny-dipped in the pond on the company's property, he did admit to another type of aquatic follies.

Years ago, Otellini confessed, when he lived in a home on a hillside in El Dorado Hills (hills above Folsom and the Intel campus), he and his friends would sit in his hot tub and use a cordless telephone to remotely key in access codes that operated the lights inside Intel's Folsom facility, creating free light shows.

I can just imagine how much the Intel security guards enjoyed the light shows!

Read the Folsom Life article, complete with a photograph of the Pentium II bunnies here.

Hat tip to Marc Maloney of Folsom Life.

Hat tip to Joe of the Pinehurst Thread for the link to the article about Otellini, Dunlap and Hughes becoming Intel employees on the same day.