Andy Bechtolsheim

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

Organizations and connections

Affiliations retain their dates and sources. Roles may be historical; a missing end date does not establish a current role. Machine classifications need review; a co-mention alone does not establish a relationship.

1. Andy Bechtolsheim→Sun Microsystems

   Co-founded

   foundedFrom 1982 · end not recordedCurated evidence
   • Scott McNealy: Sun co-founders ↗Computer History Museum
2. Andy Bechtolsheim→Google

   Wrote the initial $100,000 investment check

   invested in1998Curated evidence

   Investor role

   Investor role not specified

   Financing

   Type not specified

   Closing status

   Not specified

   Investor contribution

   USD 100,000

   Source context: Google dates the check to August 1998, without an exact announcement day or named financing stage. The amount belongs to Bechtolsheim, not an entire round.

   Event reference: funding:google:initial-check-1998

   • From the garage to the Googleplex ↗Google
3. Andy Bechtolsheim→Technical University of Munich

   Educated at

   educated atDates not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q65344$E935D9A9-10AD-4BCB-AA40-DBC80A6D67DB1 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata
4. Andy Bechtolsheim→Stanford University

   Educated at

   educated atDates not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q65344$3B83D12F-F158-4627-973F-906F9EA2DE34No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata
5. Andy Bechtolsheim→Deutsche Schule Rom

   Educated at

   educated atDates not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q65344$ac9dba19-4be1-f390-c1c1-53a4f2280c51No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata
6. Andy Bechtolsheim→Carnegie Mellon University

   Educated at

   educated at1975–1976Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q65344$FF2651BE-E517-4201-83EB-EC801B634784No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata
7. Andy Bechtolsheim→Bodensee-Gymnasium Lindau

   Educated at

   educated atThrough 1973 · start not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q65344$b932aff4-4640-4438-422f-db21bf3e584cNo external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Andy Bechtolsheim ↗Wikidata
8. Andy Bechtolsheim→Sun Microsystems

   Founded

   foundedDates not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Sun Microsystems ↗Wikidata · P112 · Statement q14647$A4A96991-9E41-457F-B676-D6C9E8C7C2261 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Sun Microsystems ↗Wikidata
9. Andy Bechtolsheim↔John Backus

   Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

   co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

   Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

   • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
10. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Susan Wojcicki

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998 ↗about.google · 2023-09-05
    • Google was founded 25 years ago today ↗en.wikipedia.org · 2023-09-04
    • Google at 20: how two 'obnoxious' students changed the internet ↗www.theguardian.com · 2018-09-24
    • Master of the online universe ↗www.theguardian.com · 2009-03-15
11. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Jaron Lanier

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
12. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Jensen Huang

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Tech billionaires lost almost $100bn in stock market selloff sparked by DeepSeek ↗www.theguardian.com · 2025-01-28
13. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Richard Stallman

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
14. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Alvy Ray Smith

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
15. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Carlos Slim

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Sergey and Larry storm Forbes' list of billionaires ↗www.theguardian.com · 2007-03-09
16. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Trevor Blackwell

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A New Venture Animal ↗paulgraham.com · 2008-03-10
17. Andy Bechtolsheim↔John H. Lawrence

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
18. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Charles Ginsburg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
19. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Felix Bloch

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
20. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Martin Edward Hellman

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
21. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Bill Hewlett

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
22. Andy Bechtolsheim↔J. Robert Oppenheimer

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
23. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Daniela Amodei

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
24. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Charles Bachman

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
25. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Gordon Moore

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Bill Gates down to third richest man, thanks to Yahoo bid ↗www.theguardian.com · 2008-03-06
    • Sergey and Larry storm Forbes' list of billionaires ↗www.theguardian.com · 2007-03-09
26. Andy Bechtolsheim↔David Filo

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Bill Gates down to third richest man, thanks to Yahoo bid ↗www.theguardian.com · 2008-03-06
    • Sergey and Larry storm Forbes' list of billionaires ↗www.theguardian.com · 2007-03-09
27. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Scott Hassan

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Google was founded 25 years ago today ↗en.wikipedia.org · 2023-09-04
28. Andy Bechtolsheim↔John Shoch

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
29. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Mark Zuckerberg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
30. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Stewart Brand

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
31. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Robert B. Laughlin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
32. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Michael Moritz

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Can Google's search engine find profits? (1999) ↗www.zdnet.com · 2014-10-09
33. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Shantanu Narayen

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The most powerful Indian technologists in Silicon Valley ↗www.theguardian.com · 2014-04-11
34. Andy Bechtolsheim↔John Warnock

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
35. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Robert Taylor

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt ↗medium.com · 2015-10-17
36. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Claude Shannon

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
37. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Reed Hastings

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
38. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Larry Page

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998 ↗about.google · 2023-09-05
    • The professor who made $10B by cutting Google its first startup check ↗finance.yahoo.com · 2023-05-19
    • Can Google's search engine find profits? (1999) ↗www.zdnet.com · 2014-10-09
    • Google was founded 25 years ago today ↗en.wikipedia.org · 2023-09-04
39. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Sam Altman

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO ↗www.cnbc.com · 2024-09-30
40. Andy Bechtolsheim↔David Cheriton

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • The professor who made $10B by cutting Google its first startup check ↗finance.yahoo.com · 2023-05-19
41. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Dario Amodei

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
42. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Steve Chen

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
43. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Max Levchin

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
44. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Glenn Theodore Seaborg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
45. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Jean Hoerni

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
46. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Carl Djerassi

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
47. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Ralph Merkle

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
48. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Dennis Ritchie

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
49. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Jerry Yang

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • Bill Gates down to third richest man, thanks to Yahoo bid ↗www.theguardian.com · 2008-03-06
    • Sergey and Larry storm Forbes' list of billionaires ↗www.theguardian.com · 2007-03-09
50. Andy Bechtolsheim↔Robert Metcalfe

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05