创始人：维诺德•科斯拉，斯科特•麦克尼利，安迪•贝托谢姆和比尔•乔伊

    以斯坦福大学网络( Stanford University Network)命名的Sun微系统在20世纪90年代成为计算机工作站领域的巨无霸。这家公司如日中天之际曾经使用过这样的口号：“我们是互联网的连接者。”但随着互联网热潮的退却，许多依靠Sun微系统技术的企业纷纷关门大吉。这家公司最终被甲骨文(Oracle)以接近73亿美元的价格收购。作为高科技领域如雷贯耳的大人物，Sun微系统的几位联合创始人都绽放出精彩纷呈的第二春。科斯拉成为顶级风投公司凯鹏华盈(Kleiner Perkins)的普通合伙人，随后又创办了他自己的科斯拉风投公司(Khosla Ventures)。乔伊和贝托谢姆也成为知名投资者【贝托谢姆是谷歌公司(Google)最早的支持者之一】，麦克尼利则与他人合伙创办了社交媒体调查公司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.