Sun Microsystems
5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Peter Levine · said 38 times in 24 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (8), Mark Leslie (6), Martin Casado (5), Peter Levine (4), Steven Sinofsky (2), Michael Rogers (2), James Waters (2), W. Brian Arthur (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 23 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales
- a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- How to Build an Open Source Business
- a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Sun Microsystems, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Levine: Fidelity and Morgan Stanley defined the legacy data center blueprint
“So, 10 years ago, everyone would look at Fidelity and Morgan Stanley, and those were the prototypes for the data center. And it was, guess what? It was EMC storage, an Oracle database, a Sun Microsystems server, and a Cisco switch. And the entire world copied …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Feb 26, 2019
Mark Leslie: Sun Microsystems offered top salespeople Rolexes to break comp plans
“So, they got their five top salesmen in the world, and they brought them into the home office, and they said, the guy who breaks the compensation plan most significantly gets a gold Rolex. It worked. They found out all the holes in the plan.”
Jun 28, 2024
Aug 22, 2025
Casado: Tech supercycles originate with prosumer adoption before enterprise penetration
“Every time we have a super cycle, it tends to start, you know, in these prosumer ways, right? The internet did this, right? Like, remember when Sun outlawed the browser, right? This is like Sun Microsystems, right? But they didn't really know how to consume it…”