Which founders came from Sun Microsystems?

Ex-Sun Microsystems founders: 6 people who left Sun Microsystems to start companies

6 people who founded or worked at Sun Microsystems went on to found 10 companies, including Andy Bechtolsheim, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem, Gary Lauterbach and 2 others.

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Founders who came from Sun Microsystems

Andy Bechtolsheim

German electrical engineer, co-founder of Sun Microsystems (born 1955)

Went on to found

Moovweb 2003 Arista Networks 2004

Chris Malachowsky

American electrical engineer (born 1959)

Went on to found

Nvidia 1993

Curtis Priem

American electrical engineer (born 1958/59)

Went on to found

Nvidia 1993

Gary Lauterbach

Went on to found

Cerebras Systems 2015 Cerebras 2015 SeaMicro

Rodrigo Liang

Went on to found

SambaNova Systems 2017

Vinod Khosla

Indian-American businessman (born 1955)

Went on to found

Khosla Ventures 2004 Range Fuels 2006

How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at Sun Microsystems and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.