While a doctoral student at Stanford in computer science and electrical engineering, Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim built the SUN workstation and later became co-founder and chief system architect at Sun Microsystems. He was CEO and a Founder of Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet switching company from 1995 to 1996 when it was acquired by Cisco Systems. He managed Cisco's Gigabit Systems Business Unit responsible for the highest volume modular switching platform in the industry. Bechtolsheim's technology foresight is legendary. He was an early-stage investor in Google, VMware, Mellanox, Brocade, and Magma Design, among many others. Today he is Co-founder and Chairman of Arista Networks, a high-speed datacenter and cloud networking company.