Andreas von Bechtolsheim
Palo Alto, California
Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Germany
Arista Networks
Google, Self Made
$7,300,000,000
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#252 Billionaires 2019
#44 Richest In Tech 2017
Andreas "Andy" von Bechtolsheim is cofounder, chairman and chief development officer of network switching company Arista Networks.Much of his fortune stems from an early $100,000 investment in Google.He has earmarked his nearly 20% stake in Arista for his heirs.In 1982, he cofounded tech hardware firm Sun Microsystems with Bill Joy, Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla. Oracle bought Sun in 2010 for $7.4 billion.Born in Germany, Bechtolsheim studied computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and went to Stanford University for his Ph.D.
Besides Arista, Bechtolsheim cofounded two other IT networking companies with David Cheriton (one sold to Sun Microsystems, another to Cisco).Bechtolsheim invented one of the first network workstations while studying for his Ph.D.
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