Rank #71
Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family
Net worth $32.4B
Google · Germany
- Born
- Sep 30, 1955
- Age
- 70
- Source
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Andreas "Andy" von Bechtolsheim is cofounder and chief architect of network switching company Arista Networks.
- Born in Germany, Bechtolsheim studied computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and dropped out of a Stanford Ph.D. program in 1982 to cofound Sun Microsystems with Bill Joy, Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla.
- Much of his fortune stems from an early $100,000 investment in Google.
- He cofounded Arista in 2004 and owns a nearly 17% stake in the business, which he has earmarked for his heirs.
- Following SEC insider trading charges, Bechtolsheim agreed in 2024, without admitting guilt, to a five-year ban on serving as an director or officer of Arista or any public company.
- Besides Arista, Bechtolsheim cofounded two other IT networking companies with David Cheriton (one sold to Sun Microsystems, another to Cisco).
- Bechtolsheim invented one of the first network workstations while studying for a Ph.D.
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