English: Andy Grove in his office at the Bowers campus in Santa Clara. While Grove himself did not smoke, Robert Noyce and others did and it was a far more common to see ashtrays in the building, according to Keith Thomson, one of the first 110 employees. Grove also liked to post the growing number of Intel ads that he spearheaded as the company was growing. Intel Free Press story: A Look Back on the Early Years -- Intel photo archives: Silicon Valley technology legends from the 1970s.