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"Without choice, there is no competition. Without competition, there is no innovation. And without innovation, you are left with very little.”(website #1) This quote says a lot and has many ways of interpreting it. I have interpreted it to mean that Scott McNealy is not just any old business man; he is a business man that is very competitive, fair, but likes to have fun at the same time. As Scott’s motto goes “kick butt and have fun.” (website #2) Scott McNealy was born on November 13, 1954 in Columbus Indiana. He soon moved to Bloomfield Hills a suburb right out side of Detroit Michigan where his dad worked as the vice chairmen of American Motor Corp. McNealy was a regular student in school with no high academic ambitions, but he pursued sports, mainly hockey and golf. When He decided to take his SAT’s he scored a perfect 800 on the mathematics test. With his outstanding score he successfully applied to Harvard University. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics he dreamed of following his father’s footsteps working in a manufacturing plant. Instead, he ended up on the West Coast. After applying three times, Stanford Business School accepted him in 1978, and he graduated in 1980. He worked in a series of manufacturing jobs for two years, in plants that made truck hoods, motorcycle saddle bags, and Army tanks. In 1982 a friend of McNealy’s from business school name Vinod Khosla asked McNealy if he wanted to start a business in the computer networking industry. Soon afterward Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy started the business named Sun (Stanford University Network) Microsystems. But who would be CEO? Vinod suggested that Scott should be CEO, but McNealy said, “I don’t know enough about running a computer company,” (Video #1) and requested that Vinod take the reins. They still had one problem though, how would they get the capital to fund the organization? Needing money desperately Scott McNealy borrowed $15,000 from his father in exchange for company stock.
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