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Sun Microsystems

The PC Era · 1990s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.

The legends

Scott McNealy — The Network Is the Computer

Co-founder & CEO

Co-founder & CEO
Microsoft's loudest critic
Coined 'the network is the computer'

Bill Joy — Wrote BSD Unix

Co-founder
Wrote much of BSD Unix
Co-created Java

Andy Bechtolsheim — Google's First Check

Co-founder & hardware genius
Wrote Google's first $100k check

Vinod Khosla — Co-founder, Later Legendary VC

Co-founder
Founded Khosla Ventures

James Gosling

Created the Java language

Ed Zander

President & COO
Later CEO of Motorola

Also on the roster

Kleiner Perkins

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