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The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 22, 2026 · 1 mention

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:05 Jerry Murdock People couldn't afford to build websites with, uh, Sun, Sun servers and Oracle databases, which were expensive, but the lamp sack came out, which was Linux, Apache, web server, um, MySQL database and PHP front end development tool.

Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:39 unnamed speaker Come back to me and said, um, Microsoft, Oracle, and Thun.

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:28 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, there's that great Scott McNeely quote about trading at 10 times revenues where he just, you know, walks through how absurd it all is when Sun was trading at 10 times revenues in 99 and

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:31 Mitchell Green You and I could have taken fifty million dollars, bought some microsystem servers and built a website.

Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:06 Mark Suster By 2009, the cost of launching a startup went from five million dollars for infrastructure, for Sun servers, for Unix, for Oracle databases, for web hosting, went from five million dollars down to 500,000.

Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:31 Frank Quattrone The deal sizes were small, but the hardest part was like, if you had a, a market where the technology of IBM and digital equipment and a data general and Apollo and Sun,

Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Vinod Khosla In 1982 at Sun, we adapted TCP IP and the internet as our native network. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:27 Vinod Khosla My biggest mistake ever was I was at Sun and Cisco routers was software running on Sun machines and Sun's logo or tagline used to be the network is the computer. 4 times in the scene

Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:55 Yann LeCun So if you think about it, the, the early days of the internet, there was a battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems to provide the basic infrastructure for the internet. 3 times in the scene

Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:53 Adam Grenier Uh, my first client ever was Sun Microsystems, and so we were doing, uh, you know, we were requiring Java developers to make apps for phones.

20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents Feb 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings Then in 1982, Vinod founded Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial risk processes.

20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise Oct 21, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:15 Arif Jan Mohamed So 2003, and this was acquired by Sun Microsystems, a large company that got gobbled up by Oracle a few years ago. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building May 13, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:54 Mamoon Hamid We just graduated college as an engineer, and I'd taken my first job at a company called Xilinx, working as a FPGA designer, and I looked around my office or my cubicle, and I had a Sun workstation, and I was using this thing called… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:33 Mamoon Hamid Then all the things that have been built on top of the internet, companies like Xilinx, Tandem computers, Compact computers, Sun Microsystems, Lotus, Intuit, Symantec, Amazon, of course.

20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check May 3, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings I think that is a mic drop moment if ever there was one, and before founding Okta, Frederick enjoyed roles with Hummer Wimblad on the other side of the table as a VC, and also at Salesforce and Sun Microsystems on the operations side.

20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:59 Garry Tan He literally wrote Java server pages at Sun before he started a company and then became a VC.

20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+ Feb 20, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:43 Pejman Nozad If you walk three miles to Stanford is where Sun Microsystem, Cisco, and most recently Instagram and Snapchat started.

20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank Dec 2, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:54 Samir Kaji And I think, you know, if you think about what fuels that is, um, the fact that, you know, the companies that today that are, that are getting headlines are the Twitters and Facebooks, the Ubers of the world versus, you know, in the past…
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