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Bechtolsheim received an undergraduate degree from a university in Germany, and received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.
At Stanford University, Bechtolsheim had devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation) with built in networking running the operating system called Unix. He developed the workstation because he was sick of waiting for computer time at the central University system.
Khosla approached him, wanting to build a business around selling the workstation. He also approached McNealy who was then pursuing an MBA at Stanford Business School.
They named the company Sun as an acroynm for the "Stanford University Network." Bechtolsheim left Stanford, where he was enrolled in a PhD program, to found the company.
Sun Microsystems quickly became a success, with $1 billion in sales by 1988. By 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, the market capitalizationMarket capitalization often abbreviated to market cap mkt. cap or market value or referred to as just capitalization is a business term that refers to the overall value of a company's stock. In essence, it is the price one must pay to buy an entire compan of Sun Microsystems was $11.5 billion.
After leaving Sun, he founded Granite Systems in 1995 to develop network switches. In 1996, CiscoCisco may mean: Cisco (fish) Coregonus artedi or any of several related fish species in Coregonus (Salmonidae) Cisco Systems, a computer networking company Cisco, a security company in Singapore. acquired the firm for $220 million, with Bechtolsheim owning 65%. He became Vice President and general manager of Cisco's Gigabit Systems Business Unit, until leaving the company in December 2003 to head Kealia, Inc. Bechtolsheim founded Kealia in early 2001 with David Cheriton , who was also a partner in Granite Systems. In February 2004, Sun Microsystems announced it was acquiring Kealia in a stock swap. Due to the acquisition, Bechtolsheim returned to Sun again as senior vice president and chief architect.
Bechtolsheim and Cheriton were two of the first investors in Google Inc.This page is about Google Inc. For the search engine produced by Google Inc. see Google. Google Inc. is a U. based corporation, founded in 1998 that runs and manages the Google search engine. Google is headquartered (at the " Googleplex") in Mountain View, investing $200,000 in 1998. Bechtolsheim reportedly wrote the check to "Google" prior to the company even being founded. The story that says Bechtolsheim coined the name "Google" is untrue.
As a result of shrewd investments like these, Bechtolsheim is increasingly being seen as a savvy investor, particularly in areas such as electronic design automation (EDA)Electronic design automation (EDA is used to refer to the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (Electronic Computer Aided, which refers to the software used by people designing computer chips. He has made a number of successful investments in EDA. He argues that changes in the chips themselves are outpacing the development of EDA tools, creating what he sees as an opportunity. It was his interest in these design tools while at Stanford which prompted his frustration when waiting for access to mainframes which led to his development of the first workstation.
One such EDA company, Magma Design Automation Inc., has been tremendously profitable for Bechtolsheim, with his stake in the company being valued around $60 million.
Bechtolsheim is a founding member of Carnegie-Mellon University's West Coast Campus in California.
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