What happened to Andy Bechtolsheim? Age, Relationship, Salary

 

Andy Bechtolsheim is an American businessman and engineer. He is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the current chairman of the board of directors of Google. He also has a stake in a number of other companies, including Akamai Technologies, KPCB, and VMware.

Bechtolsheim was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1955. His parents were both academics; his father was a professor of physics and his mother was a professor of literature. He has two older sisters. The family moved to the United States when Bechtolsheim was three years old, and he was raised in Palo Alto, California.

Bechtolsheim attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1977. He then went on to earn his master’s degree in 1978 and his Ph.D. in 1981, both in electrical engineering.

After graduation, Bechtolsheim worked for Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for a few years. In 1982, he co-founded Sun Microsystems with Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy. Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010 for $7.4 billion.

Bechtolsheim has been a director of Google since 2004. He was an early investor in the company, and his investment of $100,000 in 1998 was worth over $3 billion by the time Google went public in 2004. He is currently worth an estimated $9.1 billion.

Bechtolsheim is married to Renee Weigle, and the couple have two children.

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia