Andy Bechtolsheim Net Worth

What is Andy Bechtolsheim's net worth? Andy Bechtolsheim's net worth is $2 billion dollars. Born in Bavaria, Germany, Andy Bechtolsheim grew up largely isolated, and began experimenting with electronics to pass the time while he was in elementary school. By age 16, he had designed an industrial controller, the sale of which funded his education. After graduating from the University of Technology Munich, he earned his Master's Degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and then began his Ph.D study in electrical engineering at Stanford University. While at Stanford, he designed the SUN workstation, and after partnering with Stanford Business School alum, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy, the three founded Sun Microsystems. Bill Joy joined the team, and with the creation of the Sun-1, the company was off and running. By 1988, just six years after its founding, Sun Microsystems was worth $1 billion. Since then, he has founded or funded a number of other successful technology companies, including being the first investor in Google, Inc.

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