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...revenues, Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., has achieved phenomenal growth. Founded only four years ago, Sun boosted sales from $8 million in fiscal 1983 to $115 million in 1985. Over the same period, annual profits surged from $654,000 to $8.5 million. Run by Scott McNealy, 31, Andreas Bechtolsheim, 30, and William Joy, 31, a trio of workaholic wunderkinder, the company shows signs of staying power in a business in which success is often fleeting...
...started in 1982 when Vinod Khosla, a Stanford Business School graduate, brought together McNealy, a former classmate, and Bechtolsheim, a Stanford engineering graduate student who had developed an impressive prototype for a workstation. McNealy recalls that Khosla persuaded him over a dinner of McDonald's Big Macs to quit his job as director of operations at Onyx Systems, a computer company, and help found a new firm. The next recruit was Joy, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering at Berkeley and a leading computer- software designer...
Though Khosla soon withdrew from day-to-day involvement in Sun's operations to realize his goal of retiring at age 30, the remaining trio found that they complemented one another well. Bechtolsheim, who became vice president of technology, was the wizard who designed Sun's early machines. McNealy, who has been chairman since 1984, is the bottom-line man who hires the employees and makes sure that the products are attractively priced. As vice president of research and development, Joy became the visionary of the group, charged with keeping an eye on the company's future...
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