Talk:Jerry Sanders (businessman)

Surely this could be better
I am not a big fan of the officious pedants that cite wiki rules like old school marms. However, I have to agree with the non-encyclopedic nature of this article. It would be fine if this were a less important figure, but it is jarring that somebody like this has a bio that looks so different from the norm. The friendly tone and puffy nature seems over-familiar to the point of disrespect. Jerry Sanders cast quite the shadow back in the day and he deserves better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeepNorth (talk • contribs) 07:54, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

sort of Hollywood?
Jerry was sort of Hollywood? The hell is that supposed to mean? I thought at first it made him a good salesperson for whatever reason, I'm going to boldly remove it, but if anyone wants to put it back, sure. I just don't get it myself. Sameerkale 02:13, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Nice article, but...
Nice article, but its tone is very un-encyclopedic, which makes me suspect it's been lifted from somewhere. Anyone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Palefire (talk • contribs) 12:40, 7 October 2004 (UTC)


 * Agreed, it is quite the puff piece. It could stand to be trimmed by a Wiki sword Hooperbloob 08:13, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Moved discussion appropriate text here from article proper
The following text was just removed from the article; both comments were unsigned. --Derek 17:23, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Just a note about objectivity: The above reads as if it were written by Jerry Sanders. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.106.10.228 (talk) 17:23, 29 June 2005 (UTC)
 * 8/30/05: Nah. I wrote most of it.  I worked for AMD for 13 years and I just admire the hell out of him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.21.86.116 (talk) 05:17, 31 August 2005  (UTC)


 * Jerry surely had a hand in writing it, how else did you know about the beating he received? The article was almost entirely to accurate for him not to have been involved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The1kid (talk • contribs) 04:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that it's a puff piece, but looking at the Wikipedia policies, it doesn't seem to be proper to mention his various political shenanigans in the actual article. He was real buddy-buddy with the father Bush. My own experience at AMD was actually late in 1988. The grapevine was full of coming layoffs, but nothing happened. Turned out Jerry was waiting until after the election because he didn't want to create any bad economic news for his good buddy. Right after the election, they suddenly came through and chopped off the heads. I was very junior and on contract, so I expected mine to go, too, but my boss was clever fellow and slid me through--pending his imminent departure for law school. Shanen (talk) 08:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I added a link to a profile/biography from sfgate.com, it references the beating in enough detail for a citation and can probably be used as a reference for much of the content here although the whole thing needs to be edited to encyclopedic type language. Also you can see what was meant by "hollywood" from the sections of that article titled A New Company, The Finer Things, and Big Gestures. Maracle 22:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

He was a very generous and interesting person. I was an employee for a year in 1978. He parked a Corvette in the lobby and said that when we made $98M he would give the car away. This was called the 'Run to the Sun' or somesuch. An hourly employee whose beater car had just died in manufacturing won it. Later that year at the company dinner he gave away two $10,000 checks, one to an exempt employee and one to a non-exempt. Once, when standing side by side in the men's room I asked him why his Ferrari he had thin red and green stripes horizontally around his white Ferrari. He said it made it look less like a refrigerator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bub1947 (talk • contribs) 18:30, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Hogan's Heroes
see Talk:Sherman_Fairchild --192.28.65.210 (talk) 23:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Children
This is garbled: "Jerry Sanders has four children (three from his first marriage and one from his second), three who are now adults and one who is currently living with him and his wife, Tawny, and his daughter Paris." I would fix it, but it's not sourced. Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:04, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Puffery and lack of sourcing
This article has been in poor shape for a long time (see above). The subject is unquestionably notable, but a large portion of this article is unsourced hagiography. I am going to delete many paragraphs of unsourced material - about half the article - in a few days, unless someone improves the writing and sourcing, or comes here and convinces me not to. --MelanieN (talk) 16:02, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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What about his parents and multiple siblings?
Never saw anything about his family, Parents nor Siblings? 72.217.117.200 (talk) 23:52, 13 February 2023 (UTC)