Intel is on a mission to convince the U.S. government that its strength is also the country's.
Illustration by Sam Ward
The special guests at the State of the Union are usually valorous veterans or hard-working nurses with extraordinary personal histories. According to a time-honored custom, the president points up to the guests sitting in the House chamber’s balcony and describes their inspiring story to humanize a particular policy.
But this year, President Biden put a different spin on the tradition. He invited the CEO of a massive corporation with $79 billion in annual revenue and 121,000 employees worldwide.
“I don’t know where Pat is,” Biden said, about 20 minutes into his address last month, scanning the room. “There you go. Pat, stand up,” he continued, gesturing to where Patrick Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel, was seated, right between Jill Biden and the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., another honored guest for the evening.
“If you travel 20 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, you’ll find 1,000 empty acres of land. It won’t look like much, but if you stop and loo
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