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Degrees

Carnegie Mellon University, MS 1976
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University, PhD 1982
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Chief Development Officer, Chairman

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Andy Bechtolsheim

Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems while a PhD student at Stanford. He left sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a company focused on network switches.

He was one of the first investors in Google back in 1998 and as seen as one of the most successful Angel investors in Silicon Valley.

Milestones

  • Invested in Moovweb. (2009)
    Posted 11/4/09 at 11:16am
  • Invested in Tapulous. (7/08)
    Posted 7/15/08 at 5:28am
  • Invested in Cresta Technology. (2008)
    Posted 12/1/08 at 12:29pm
  • Invested in Google. (8/98)
    Posted 8/18/07 at 1:03am
  • Added position as Co-founder at Sun Microsystems.
    Posted 8/18/07 at 12:58am
  • Added position as Chief Development Officer, Chairman at Arista Networks.
    Posted 10/23/08 at 10:49am
  • Added position as Co-founder at Kealia.
    Posted 1/19/09 at 12:59am
  • Added position as Co-founder at Granite Systems.
    Posted 1/19/09 at 12:59am

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Moovweb 2009Seed$700k1
Tapulous 7/08Angel$1.8M6
Cresta Technology 2008Series A$5M2
Google 8/98Angel$100k1

Sources

  1. Moovweb (moovweb.com) [edit]
  2. Tapulous Wants To Be The RockYou Of Apple’s App Store (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Cresta Technologies (crestatech.com) [edit]
  4. google.com []

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