Sun Microsystems, every mention
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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 30:36 David Rosenthal They end up getting a meeting with Vinod Khosla, a legendary founder of Sun Microsystems.
- ▶ 40:50 David Rosenthal So Larry and Sergey go to a professor in the CS department at Stanford named Dave Cheridan, and Dave had started an Ethernet company called Granite Systems with Andy Bechtelsheim from Sun, while also staying as a professor at Stanford at…
- ▶ 1:00:10 David Rosenthal The primary Java virtual machine that Sun used as, like, the official Java virtual machine.
- ▶ 1:08:51 David Rosenthal The ink to me cage had all these gleaming sun machines and lots of space and lots of airflow and all this incredible cable management.
- ▶ 1:43:44 David Rosenthal Through all of it, you know, 1617, 18 months in, finally, Eric Schmidt emerges as probably the only viable candidate out there, and I think Eric was acceptable to both sides, both because he was an actual engineer and had been at Sun, he…
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:22 Steve Ballmer You know, Scott McNeely at Sun used to have this expression.