Andy Bechtolsheim

Sun Microsystems. As a Stanford graduate student Bechtolsheim designed the SUN workstation board for the university network, and Stanford licensed the design to several companies. When none made much of it he co-founded Sun in 1982 with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy, selling networked Unix workstations built from standard parts. He later wrote the first cheque to Google and co-founded Arista Networks.