Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family

Cofounder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman, Arista Networks
$20.42B
$21.8M (0.1%)
as of 10/03/24

About Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family

Andreas "Andy" von Bechtolsheim is cofounder and chief architect of network switching company Arista Networks.

Born in Germany, Bechtolsheim studied computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and dropped out of a Stanford Ph.D. program in 1982 to cofound Sun Microsystems with Bill Joy, Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla.

Much of his fortune stems from an early $100,000 investment in Google.

He cofounded Arista in 2004 and owns a nearly 17% stake in the business, which he has earmarked for his heirs.

Following SEC insider trading charges, Bechtolsheim agreed in 2024, without admitting guilt, to a five-year ban on serving as an director or officer of Arista or any public company.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Germany

Source of wealth

Google

Residence

Palo Alto, California

Marital status

Single

Birth date

09/30/55 (age 69)

Education

Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Self-made

self-made

Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family’s fortune is worth

340K

troy ounces of gold

314K

median U.S. household

204K

median U.S. income

0.408%

U.S. credit card volume

0.082%

GDP of the United States

0.06%

United States debt

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Did you know?

Bechtolsheim invented one of the first network workstations while studying for a Ph.D.

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Financial assets

NYSE | ANET-US

Arista Networks

NASDAQ | GOOG-US

Google Inc. (Cl C)

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