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David Cheriton (David Ross Cheriton) was born on 29 March, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian businessman and computer scientist. Discover David Cheriton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 29 March, 1951
Birthday 29 March
Birthplace Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1951

David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist.

He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.

He is a distributed computing and computer networking expert, with insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address such opportunities.

He has founded and invested in technology companies, including Google, where he was among the first angel investors; VMware, where he was an early investor; and Arista, where he was cofounder and chief scientist.

He has funded at least 20 companies.

Cheriton was ranked by Forbes with an estimated net worth of US$8.8 billion, as of April 2021.

1973

He was rejected by the music program, and then went on to study mathematics and received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from the University of British Columbia in 1973.

1974

Cheriton received his Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively.

He spent three years as an assistant professor at his alma mater, the University of British Columbia, before moving to Stanford.

Cheriton was involved in creating three microkernel operating systems (OSes).

He was one of the early principal developers of Thoth, a real-time operating system, and then the Verex kernel.

He then founded and led the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University, which developed a microkernel OS named V.

He has published profusely in the areas of distributed computing and computer networking.

1996

It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996.

1998

In August 1998, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met Bechtolsheim on Cheriton's front porch.

At the meeting, Bechtolsheim wrote the first cheque to fund their company, Google, and Cheriton joined him as an angel investor with a $200,000 investment.

2001

In 2001 Cheriton and Bechtolsheim founded another start-up company, Palo Alto based Kealia.

Kealia designed a high-capacity streaming video server; Galaxy, a range of servers based on AMD's Opteron microprocessor; and Thumper, an enterprise-grade network attached storage system.

2003

He won the prestigious SIGCOMM award in 2003, in recognition for his lifetime contribution to the field of telecommunications networks.

Cheriton was the mentor and advisor of students such as: Sergey Brin and Larry Page (founders of Google), Kenneth Duda (founder of Arista Networks), Hugh Holbrook (VP Software Engineering at Arista Networks), Sandeep Singhal (was GM at Microsoft, now at Google), and Kieran Harty (CTO and founder of Tintri).

2004

Cheriton was also an early investor in compute virtualization leader VMware, which was later acquired for $625M by EMC in 2004.

Kealia was bought by Sun Microsystems in 2004, with Thumper becoming the Sun Fire X4500.

In 2004, Cheriton cofounded (again with Bechtolsheim) and was chief scientist of Arista Networks, where he worked on the foundations of the Extensible Operating System (EOS).

2007

VMware had a successful public offering in 2007.

2011

Cheriton is an investor in and advisory board member for frontline data warehouse company Aster Data Systems, which was acquired by Teradata in 2011 for $263M.

Cheriton is also one of the earliest investors in Tintri, a storage virtualization company founded by his student Kieran Harty.

Cheriton was also an early investor in in-video advertising company Zunavision, and he founded OptumSoft.

2014

Arista had a successful public offering in 2014.

In 2014, Cheriton cofounded and invested in Apstra, Inc. In 2015, he cofounded and invested in BrainofT, Inc. (Caspar).

He currently serves as the Chief Data Center Scientist at Juniper Networks.

Although the Google investment alone would be worth over US$1 billion, Cheriton has a reputation for a frugal lifestyle, avoiding costly cars or large houses.

He was once included in a list of "cheapskate billionaires".

2016

He has made contributions to education, with a $25 million donation to support graduate studies and research in the School of Computer Science (subsequently renamed David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) at the University of Waterloo, a $7.5 million donation to the University of British Columbia, and a $12 million endowment in 2016 to Stanford University to support Computer Science faculty, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Cheriton attended public schools in the Highlands neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

He briefly attended the University of Alberta where he had applied for both mathematics and music.

As of 2016, Cheriton is working with Stanford students on transactional memory, making memory systems that are resilient to failures.

"In-memory processing leads to dramatically faster computers – in some cases speeding up applications by a factor of 100,000. It changes the complete nature of how a business can run. We’re trying to lower the cost and to fit these systems in existing memory structures and reduce the number of components to make them more reliable and more secure."

- David R. Cheriton; 2016 interview

Cheriton cofounded Granite Systems with Andy Bechtolsheim.

The company developed gigabit Ethernet products.