Scott McNealy began SUN Microsystems at the age of 27. Educated on both coasts (Harvard and Stanford), McNealy spent most of his adult life living in Silicon Valley, but his roots are from Rockford, Illinois.
The billionaire entrepreneur, who recently launched a project called Wayin, was at 1871 — Chicago’s newest startup space, to impart wisdom gleaned from more than two decades of leading SUN Microsystems — a company that built and sold computers, software, components, and built the Java programming language. ❒
