Rank #337
David Cheriton
Net worth $10.1B
Google · Canada
- Born
- Mar 29, 1951
- Age
- 75
- Source
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of British Columbia; Doctorate, University of Waterloo; Master of Science, University of Waterloo
Net worth over time
Biography
- "Professor Billionaire" David Cheriton, who is professor emeritus at Stanford University, made his fortune thanks to an early investment in Google.
- Cheriton and Andreas von Bechtolsheim (also now a billionaire) each invested $100,000 in Google when it was just getting started.
- The pair cofounded 3 companies: Arista Networks (IPO in 2014), Granite Systems (sold to Cisco in 1996) and Kealia (sold to Sun Microsystems in 2004).
- Cheriton resigned from Arista's board in 2014.
- Cheriton became chief data center scientist at Juniper Networks after the acquisition of his company Apstra in 2021.
- Cheriton, who is frugal in his personal life, is the third of six children of two Canadian engineers who grew up during the Great Depression.
- Cheriton still lives in the Palo Alto home he's owned for 30 years and cuts his own hair.
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