Sun Microsystems
defunct American computer hardware and software company
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Videos Mentioning Sun Microsystems
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future
Y Combinator
Co-founded by Vinod Khosla, it was a significant company in the early days of workstation and server technology.
Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266
Lex Fridman
A technology company mentioned as an early example of firms that resisted hackers reporting vulnerabilities.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla
All-In Podcast
Co-founded by Vinod Khosla in 1982, which became a billion-dollar company within five years.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
All-In Podcast
Sun Microsystems is cited as an example of a foundational plumbing company from Web 1.0 that built critical infrastructure for the internet.
James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126
Lex Fridman
The company where James Gosling initiated the project that would become Java, driven by a concern that the computing industry was missing out on embedded and consumer electronics.
The Reckoning to Come: A Conversation with Balaji Srinivasan (Episode #259)
Sam Harris
Competitor to Microsoft during the antitrust period.
Legendary Inventor Danny Hillis — Solving the Impossible (Plus Kevin Kelly)
Tim Ferriss
Company where hardware people from Thinking Machines found new roles and exchanged stock options after Thinking Machines closed down.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
Latent Space
A former technology company known for its Unix boxes, used by Stanford students for coding assignments in the late 90s. Later, its campus was acquired by Facebook.
Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince at Startup School SV 2014
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a type of company whose employees investors suggested Cloudflare should hire for web infrastructure experience.
Eric Schmidt — Lessons from a Trillion-Dollar Coach | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A predecessor to modern computing, built complex workstations. Eric Schmidt joined in 1983 and learned about business and executive arts here.