> It's that Intel should have understood that just because you have weak enemies today doesn't mean that you have an unassailable castle.
Their third employee that later went on to become their third CEO and guide Intel from the memory to processor transition literally coined the term and wrote a book called "Only the Paranoid Survive" [1]. It's inexcusable that management degraded that much.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Only_the_Paranoid...