He is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim.

[3] McNealy earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

[7][8][5] In 1982, he was approached by fellow Stanford alumnus Vinod Khosla to help provide the necessary organizational and business leadership for Sun Microsystems.

On April 24, 2006, McNealy stepped down as CEO after serving in that position for 22 years, and turned the job over to Jonathan I. Schwartz.

[12] In 2010, the same year Oracle Corporation purchased Sun, McNealy co-founded the social media intelligence company Wayin.

He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father, was vice chairman of the American Motors Corporation.

[20] They lived in Portola Valley, CA,[19] now in Nevada, and have four sons: Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout.

"[30] Writer Stephen Manes criticized the statement in his Full Disclosure column: "He's right on the facts, wrong on the attitude....

As quoted in The Register, McNealy said, "There’s a pendulum thing where stuff is on the client side and then goes back into the network where it belongs.

I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are.