Word: khosla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...