????創始人：維諾德?科斯拉，斯科特?麥克尼利，安迪?貝托謝姆和比爾?喬伊

????以斯坦福大學網絡( Stanford University Network)命名的Sun微系統在20世紀90年代成為計算機工作站領域的巨無霸。這家公司如日中天之際曾經使用過這樣的口號：“我們是互聯網的連接者。”但隨著互聯網熱潮的退卻，許多依靠Sun微系統技術的企業紛紛關門大吉。這家公司最終被甲骨文(Oracle)以接近73億美元的價格收購。作為高科技領域如雷貫耳的大人物，Sun微系統的幾位聯合創始人都綻放出精彩紛呈的第二春。科斯拉成為頂級風投公司凱鵬華盈(Kleiner Perkins)的普通合伙人，隨后又創辦了他自己的科斯拉風投公司(Khosla Ventures)。喬伊和貝托謝姆也成為知名投資者【貝托謝姆是谷歌公司(Google)最早的支持者之一】，麥克尼利則與他人合伙創辦了社交媒體調查公司Wayin。

????Founders: Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Bill Joy

????Named after the Stanford University Network, Sun Microsystems became the goliath of computer workstations in the 1990s, so much so it once used the slogan, "We're the dot in dot-com." But the end of the dotcom boom meant the shuttering of many businesses that relied on Sun's technologies; the company ultimately was acquired by Oracle for nearly $7.3 billion. Its co-founders, all household names in tech, have had rich second acts. Kholsa became a general partner at Kleiner Perkins before starting his own venture firm, Khosla Ventures. Joy and Bechtolsheim are investors (Bechtolsheim was one of the earliest backers of Google), and McNealy co-founded social-media polling company Wayin.