23 Facts About Scott McNealy

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Scott McNealy was born on November 13,1954 and is an American businessman.

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Scott McNealy is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim.

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In 2004, while still at Sun, McNealy founded Curriki, a free online education service.

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Scott McNealy stepped down from his position as CEO of Wayin in 2016.

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Unlike most people who become involved in high technology industries, Scott McNealy did not come from the world of amateur programmers or hardware hackers; instead, his background was in business, having earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Scott McNealy has self-deprecatingly referred to himself as a "golf major" rather than a computer scientist.

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Scott McNealy started out working at American Motors, where his father was vice chairman and vice president of marketing.

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Scott McNealy later became manufacturing director at Onyx Systems, a vendor of microprocessor-based Unix systems.

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In 1984, Scott McNealy took over the CEO role from Khosla, who ultimately would leave the company in 1985.

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Scott McNealy is one of the few CEOs of a major corporation to have had a tenure of over twenty years.

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In 2017, Scott McNealy joined the golf app startup 18Birdies as advisor and equity partner.

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In 2010, the same year Oracle Corporation purchased Sun, Scott McNealy co-founded the social media intelligence company Wayin.

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Scott McNealy grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father, Raymond William McNealy Jr.

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Scott McNealy graduated from Cranbrook School; he later supported the campaign of fellow Cranbrook alumnus and 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

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Scott McNealy is married to Susan McNealy; they live in Nevada, and have four sons: Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout.

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Scott McNealy is known to be an enthusiastic ice hockey player and has been ranked as one of the best golfers in executive ranks.

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Scott McNealy is the commissioner of the Alternative Golf Association.

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In 1987, Scott McNealy was named an Award Recipient of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Northern California Region.

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Scott McNealy was an early advocate of the networked environment; his company's motto was The Network is the Computer.

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Scott McNealy is a self-proclaimed "raging libertarian", although he often supports and endorses the Republican Party.

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Scott McNealy makes regular appearances on the Fox Business Channel to discuss libertarian business issues.

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In 2017, Scott McNealy praised the 45th US President, Donald Trump, for his free-market economic policies.

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On September 17,2019, Scott McNealy hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump's re-election campaign.