Bill Joy
@billjoy
American computer scientist
Building Sun Microsystems as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Born
- 1954
- Educated at
- University of Michigan · University of California, Berkeley · North Farmington High School
About
Bill Joy is a computer scientist and engineer, born in 1954 in Farmington Hills. They studied at University of Michigan.
In context
Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 and closed in 2010, after 28 years. Among the 2,147 other companies founded in the 1980s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 18 years, so this one outlasted most of them.
Named alongside
- Andy BechtolsheimFounder
- Scott McNealyFounder
- Vinod KhoslaFounder
Contribution
Bill's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.