Lighthouse Design to Sun's CEO chair — the ponytailed blogger who ran McNealy's company; the NeXT thread's other end
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Lighthouse Design founder; Sun Microsystems' former chief executive — the role the film's own credits give, and all this page takes from the public record. In this record for one stated reason: Jonathan Schwartz is one of the twenty-two credited narrators of the Silicon Valley Historical Association's Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur, and Jonathan Hare records having met and having connections to him (S-183). Where, when and through whom are not yet on the record; Hare's earlier account (S-182) is that most of these connections ran through Laurene Powell Jobs. The page is a placeholder that says so, and an invitation to either side to fill it.
The public record, at web grade. Co-founder of Lighthouse Design, the premier software house for Steve Jobs's NeXT platform, acquired by Sun in 1996; rose through Sun to president and, from 2006 to 2010, chief executive — successor to Scott McNealy, the first Fortune 500 CEO to blog, and the executive who open-sourced Solaris and Java's crown jewels before the Oracle acquisition; later a founder of CareZone in health data. In this record's network: both of his poles are already here — Sun and McNealy from the Marquardt-orbit years, and the NeXT machines of Hare's Berkeley IEOR account (S-188), which ran exactly the class of software Lighthouse made; the CareZone chapter lands him in the same health-data problem as the record's FDA thread.
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Silicon Valley Historical Association, January 2013 — built on a 1994 interview at NeXT; twenty-two credited voices, twelve of whom Hare records having met
Open →the film's subjectHP as a teenager, Terman's Valley, an Oregon commune, India, Zen — the parallels the record can actually show; and the borrowed Ferrari, the Z8, and the woman who connects them
Open →ran itThe network is the computer
Open →his successor as CEOSun's CEO, the undisputed big winner of GSB '79–'80 — one of three billionaires pulled into a single D1 conversation circle
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