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Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up (nytimes.com)
46 points by lnguyen on Oct 23, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Andy Bechtolsheim is also famous for being one of the first investors in Google.

After getting the pitch he went to his car to write a $100,000 check for the not-yet-incorporated company. At one stage I saw that investment was valued at $1.5 billion, but I guess it would be less now.




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