Cheriton给谷歌第一笔投资,值17亿美元, 还开86年大众, 自己理发

低调+坚持创新的榜样！
切瑞顿Cheriton是全球最富的全职教授，可能是硅谷最NB低调的天使！
他与Sun创始人Andy创立Granite于96年2.2亿美元卖给思科,创立Kealia卖给Sun，
98年每人同时给谷歌创始人10万美元=谷歌第一笔天使投资！
他值17亿美元，81年至今当斯坦福教授,还开86年大众车,住30年前买的房,自己理发


The Midas List #4 David Cheriton, Stanford University, 2008 Rank: 4, Age: 57

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/99/midas09_David-Cheriton_LD0O.html
Tenured Stanford professor drives a VW van, dreams up multimillion-dollar companies. Invested early in Google and VMware. Co-founded Granite Systems (sold to Cisco Systems for $220 million) and Kealia (sold to Sun Microsystems for $90 million) with Andreas von Bechtolsheim (see No. 7). Last year the pair launched Arista Networks, a low-cost switch maker aimed at snagging business from Cisco.


Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/08/01/professor-billionaire-david-cheriton/

It’s dusk on a crisp January day at Stanford University, and David Cheriton is in his corner office waiting for his weekly research meeting to begin. The last slivers of sunlight filter through the windows, illuminating the pages of Superyacht Living & Style, a glossy magazine Cheriton is browsing through with only the mildest of interest.

“I once read that a boat is a hole in the water where you pour in a bunch of money,” says Cheriton. He flips through a few more pages and disdainfully tosses it to the floor alongside a pile of keyboards, cables and cords. “I don’t know why they keep sending me these things.”

Burgess, the yacht magazine publisher, knows exactly why: Cheriton is rich. Rich enough to afford the April Fool, 200 feet of steel-hulled elegance listed at $60 million, or New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart’s Ulysses, priced at $49 million. Or both.

With a net worth of $1.3 billion, Cheriton is likely the wealthiest full-time academic in the world. But yachts are not his thing. The Stanford computer science professor calls himself “spoiled” for taking the occasional windsurfing vacation to Maui. When pressed to recall his latest splurge, the best he can come up with is a 2012 Honda Odyssey (“for the kids”). His act of thinking is often punctuated by the clicks of three different-colored ballpoint pens that he rotates through his fingers.

The one expensive passion he does pursue? “Startup companies,” he says, as he continues to shuffle his pens. Blue. Click. Red. Click. Black. Click.

When Cheriton uses one of those pens to write a check to a startup, he usually ends up more in the black than in the red. Far more in the black. The first two companies he founded were sold to Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems, respectively, for hundreds of millions. In all he’s spent more than $50 million out of his own pocket, investing in 17 different firms, which range from VMware to his latest, Arista Networks. But the topper was a $100,000 check he wrote in 1998 to a pair of Stanford Ph.D. students named Larry and Sergey. That check alone is now worth more than $1 billion in Google shares. “I feel like I’ve been very fortunate in investing, but I still have the brain of a scrounger in terms of spending money,” he says.

Cheriton, 61, maintains a low profile. Google searches of his name turn up primitive Web pages in Times New Roman, not the LinkedIn and Facebook profiles that have become Silicon Valley standards. (He doesn’t even tweet.) When I asked random Stanford students about him, several paused to think, then asked if his last name is spelled the same way as the Sheraton hotel chain.

That’s the way Cheriton prefers it. He still drives the same 1986 Volkswagen Vanagon he had before he made his money, lives in the same Palo Alto home he’s owned for the last 30 years and employs the same barber—himself. “It’s not that I can’t fathom a haircut,” says Cheriton. “It’s just easy to do myself, and it takes less time.”

For a man who works 10 to 12 hours a day, Cheriton understands that time is everything. His investment in Google allowed college freshmen cramming for exams to cut through the junk that had flooded search engines like ­AltaVista. His newest company, Arista Networks, makes a data switch that cuts down the delays between servers, allowing bits to be transferred in less than 500 nanoseconds, nearly twice as fast as Cisco’s fastest switch and Juniper Networks’ best. That gives traders on Wall Street the ability to submit their trades nanoseconds before their competitors and gives doctors the capacity to sequence a patient’s genome in real time. Cheriton has been working on the guts of its operating system since 2004, when the company was founded. Arista, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is adding at least a customer a day. The company says it is operating at an annual revenue run rate of $200 million. “Imagine if cars going 50mph speed up by a factor of ten,” says Cheriton. “It qualitatively changes what you can do.” Arista is that vehicle.

The third of six children of two Canadian engineers who grew up during the Great Depression, Cheriton was always encouraged to pursue his own path, says his father, Ross. The elder Cheriton recalls an independent, “self-sufficient” boy who didn’t indulge in team sports and built his own timber fort in the family’s yard away from the other children. His father also remembers a gifted son who decided to stay out of Edmonton’s Eastglen High School for the 11th grade because he felt the curriculum was too slow. “He went his own way,” his father says. “We didn’t channel him.”


http://www.californiality.com/2011/10/california-billionaires.html
http://www.richestnetworth.com/david-cheriton-net-worth/
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=33348547
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2013/08/14/meet-10-rising-stars-at-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2013/08/14/an-american-dream-story-with-a-silicon-valley-twist/
https://engineering.stanford.edu/alumni-profile/andy-bechtolsheim-engineering-hero-talks-innovation-success-engineeringhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cheriton

Photo From left: Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda and David Cheriton, the founders of Arista Networks, with a data-routing switch. Cheriton and Bechtolsheim have committed $100 million of their money to shake up the business of connecting computers in the Internet's big computing centers.

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@yiran哥哥：太瞎掰了吧， 啥高报价呀。 别的不说，谷歌当年刚是个商业计划+框架时，想卖身给雅虎， 卖个一二百万美元，雅虎没有看到谷歌的潜在价值，不买！ 结果人哥俩找到斯坦福教授，创业家David Cheriton， Cheriton当场拍了10万美元给做种子资金。 这10万后来值12亿+美元。

@香港成报：【大卫．切瑞顿 爱好「天使投资」的教授】大卫‧切瑞顿（David Cheriton）是斯坦福大学的现任的全职教授，事实上，这位教授并非凡人—他身家高达17 亿美元，堪称世界上最富有的学者。在福布斯今年3 月发布的亿万富豪榜单中，大卫．切瑞顿成为了加拿大最富有的20 位富豪之一……http://t.cn/zHhx19S

@创业家杂志：【全球最富有教授：谷歌的第一位投资人】大卫·切瑞顿是斯坦福大学教授，身价17亿美元，是加拿大20大富豪之一。教书之余，他热衷投资初创企业。1998年，谷歌创始人佩奇和布林在他家中的门廊展示了创业项目，当场获得了10万美元。他至今未变现过这笔投资，一直低调朴素的生活。 http://t.cn/zTRCPY2
@江南小蝶52：David Cheriton,投资谷歌第一人。特立独行，为节约时间自己剪发，看上去发型还不错。父母是训练有素的专业人士，总是鼓励他“走自己的路”，他是一个“自给自足”的男孩。Sam Liang："He wants his students to think big and try to figure out a way to change the world." //@Multistrada: //@雷军:

@MEET美国公开课大：大卫·切瑞顿/David Cheriton是斯坦福计算机及电子工程系教授，也是全球最富有教授，身价17 亿美元。他的财富大部分来源于早期投资Google的10万美元。他一直过着低调且朴素的生活，至今仍开着1986年的大众凡拉冈。“我觉得在投资方面我非常幸运，但在花钱这个问题上我的思维方式跟乞丐没什么两样。”

@你是天才发明家：*做有眼光的投资人*David Cheriton就是这个家伙和Andy Bechtolshiem ,他们当初每人给谷歌了20万美元。现在他们已经累计给Arista投入1亿美元，占该公司总筹资额的95%，经过7年的经营，刚刚可以盈利。能有懂行的资本雄厚的创始人支持，实在是Arista的幸事。全职学术研究型的投资人！


@新浪科技：【全球最富有教授：谷歌第一位投资人】大卫·切瑞顿是斯坦福大学教授，身价17亿美元，是加拿大20大富豪之一。教书之余，他还热衷投资初创企业。1998年，谷歌创始人佩奇和布林在他的家中展示了他们的创业项目，并获得切瑞顿及其朋友的10 万美元支持。至今切瑞顿从未变现过这笔投资。http://t.cn/zT80pMC

@安卓每日经典榜：【硅谷人生】1998年，他听两个斯坦福学生的介绍，写了张10万美元的投资支票；这是谷歌获得的第一笔投资。现在身家13亿美元的David Cheriton或许是全球最富有的教授。但61岁的他还是在斯坦福任教，做做天使投资，每天工作10-12个小时，开着大众和本田汽车，住在30多年前的房子，坚持给自己理发。

@aefod：大卫·切瑞顿(David Cheriton)，和投资的关联：1、技术负责arista交换机大量用于高频量化交易；2、成功的投资者，净资产13亿。投资了种子期谷歌10万，获益上万倍。3、MIT计算机教授，互联网的cisco交换机、sun服务器和VMware虚拟机，他均是技术指导，是思科某指令集ASICs的架构师。http://t.cn/zT6q5SN