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for a short while, then joined VeloCom, an investment firm focused on the telecommunications industry. While there, he was assigned to work at VĂ©sper, a struggling telecom company that was nearing bankruptcy. Amon worked for the
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During Steven
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as well. Early on, he developed an interest in radio communications. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at that university in 1992. At the time, the first generation of cellular radio
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then-CEO Mollenkopf. He led a $ 1.4 billion acquisition of a company founded by former Apple executives called Nuvia and re-focused it on CPUs for consumer products, instead of data centers.
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Amon started his career working for telecommunications companies during the early development of cell phone networks. His first position out of college was with
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