Word: vinod
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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...