Unlike most people involved in high technology industries, Scott McNealy did not come from the world of amateur programmers, hackers, and computer scientists. Instead, his background is from the business end, having graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and an MBA from Stanford University. At Stanford, McNealy met Khosla, Joy, and Bechtolsheim and helped provide the necessary organizational and business leadership for the fledgling Sun Microsystems ("Sun" originally stood for Stanford University Network). McNealy is one of the few CEOs of a major corporation to have had a tenure of over twenty years.
McNealy is well-known for his adversarial relationship with Microsoft and its co-founder Bill Gates, about which he regularly makes provocative statements.
McNealy is also known for having said (in 1999), "You have zero privacy anyway, get over it."
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