Andy Bechtolsheim

New Yorker: Bezos' Initial Google Investment Was $250K in 1998 Because "I Just Fell in Love With Larry and Sergey"

Kara Swisher in News on October 5, 2009 at 9:30 pm PT

Considering the ongoing skirmishes going on right now between Amazon and Google over digital book publishing, it’s more than ironic that Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos was one of only a few initial investors in the search giant. But–in one of the many interesting details in New Yorker author Ken Auletta’s new book, “Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It”–it was indeed Bezos who invested $250,000 in the start-up in 1998 at four cents a share. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! There’s a great excerpt in the New Yorker this week.

Departing Sun Co-Founder Keeping His Business Cards

John Paczkowski in News on October 23, 2008 at 7:53 am PT

Andy Bechtolsheim has given his notice again. The Sun co-founder is leaving the company he helped establish in 1982, just four years after returning to it and reinvigorating its aging product line. His new gig: chairman and chief development officer of Arista Networks.