"While Grove supported helping technology startups, he also felt that America was wrong in thinking that those new companies would increase employment. "Startups are a wonderful thing," he wrote in a 2010 article for Bloomberg, "but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment."[40] Although many of those startups and entrepreneurs would achieve tremendous success and wealth, said Grove, he was more concerned with the overall negative effect on America: "What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work and masses of unemployed?"
Even Google which is very hesitant to enter businesses that require lots of labor employs hundreds of thousands of contractors.
You can't just look at revenues without looking at expenses.
How many have Uber destroyed?
For Amazon the claim is more obvious - picking up the "killing local business" and "killing US suppliers" torches from Walmart before them - but I would be a bit suprised if there were any cities where there were fewer transportation drivers now than pre-Uber in the US. Taxis in the vast majority of the country were pretty few and far-between.
They are very different types of tech company; not as completely different as something like SaaS with no cost of physical goods at all, but Uber (while hardly an example of a good citizen company) is not really the sort of "some people in one city have jobs and nobody else does as a result" tech company as some others.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...
Because of Grove's management style, information is ammunition--you do not share it. This is anathema to problems that need heavy R&D to solve.
The corollary to this is that if you know someone is making a mistake, you let them as it improves your political position.
As an aside, it's funny to read "Intel's corner office". Andy Grove eschewed a private office and other executive perks, opting to work in a standard cubicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Egalitarian_ethos