- Donated $25 million to the Harvard Business School to establish the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
- Received a BA in Business Administration from Syracuse University in 1948.
- 1989 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
- Early investor in Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne.
- Was portrayed by actor J. K. Simmons in the 2013 biographical drama Jobs.
- Helped to finance Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.
- 1987 EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award Recipient, Northern California Region.
- Served in the United States Army during World War II.
- In 1961, he moved to California. Along with Thomas J. Davis, Jr where they formed the San Francisco venture capital firm Davis & Rock.
- Credited with setting up the first Silicon Valley venture capital firm in the 1960s.
- In 1951 he received a MBA from Harvard Business School.
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