In episode #05 of Tahoe Minds, a very special guest joins me to discuss his career, Scott McNealy. Scott and his company, Sun Microsystems, popularized the concept of network computing, created the programming language, Java, and provided all of the back end servers for the internet for the 30+ years they operated, before being bought out by Oracle.
Scott and I discuss the great tech giants like Bill Gates & Steve Balmer, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison, and he reflects on how his college days at Harvard and MBA days at Stanford caused him to fall behind the rest of the greats, who opted out early to work on their companies. We talk about his strategies for transitioning from entrepreneur to CEO, and managing such a large amount of employees through his outstanding and long lasting corporate culture.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - Why Scott hates Harvard and Stanford
10:53 - The beginnings of Sun Microsystems and management strategies
23:01 - Sun's culture and why Scott left
30:05 - Startup's today
32:39 - Open source and competition
40:38 - Dot Com Bubble and Sun's sale to Oracle
45:19 - Golf, Hockey, and what Scott does now
7 авг 2024
