David Cheriton

{ "bio": [ "\"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." ], "about": [ "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." ] }