Stanford University Alumni That Founded High-Tech Companies

With Stanford University being located in California's "Silicon Valley" (home of many high-tech companies), it is not surprising that the founders of many high-tech companies are from Stanford.

Most notably, both Google and Yahoo were started by graduate students at Stanford University. Cisco and Hewlett Packard were also founded by Standford alumni.

Founders of high-tech companies that are from Stanford University...

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Founders of Google who met at Stanford orientation of new computer science Ph.D. candidates in 1995. Page has Master's degree from Stanford. And Brin was in Stanford's PhD computer science program when he left to work on Google.
• Jerry Yang and David Filo: Founders of Yahoo both of which are Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford.
• Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner is husband and wife team that co-founded Cisco Systems. The both worked as Stanford computer operation staff. Both got masters degree in computer science from Stanford.
  
• Damon Horowitz: co-founder of Aardvark, the social search engine that was acquired by Google in February 2010. Horowitz got a PhD from Stanford.
  
• William Hewlett and David Packard: Founders of Hewlett Packard computer manufacturing company who met during their undergraduate years at Stanford. They both received their bachelor degree from Stanford in 1934.
  
• Trip Hawkins: Founder of Electronic Arts, video game publisher. After graduating from Harvard, he got an MBA from Stanford.
  
• Andy Bechtolsheim: Bechtolsheim created the Sun workstation while a graduate student at Stanford. In 1983, the three Stanford graduate students Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy founded Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems was later purchased by Oracle in 2010.
• James Clark: co-founder of Silicon Graphics computer systems and Netscape Communications. He also founded myCFO and Healtheon. Although Clark received his degrees from University of New Orleans and University of Utah, he was associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University from 1979 to 1982.
• Jen-Hsun Huang: co-founder of Nvidia, the maker of graphic chipsets. Huang received his Master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1992.
  

Besides founding high-tech companies, many other Stanford University alumni have found other companies such as ...

• Nike - founded by Phil Knight who went to Stanford Graduate School of Business and had said "Stanford Business School was an important part of my life"^[ref]

I'm sure there are many others -- too many for me to be aware of.

According to Wikipedia, "Although Stanford University provides the historical basis for high-technology growth in the South Bay and remains at the center of high-technology academic research in Silicon Valley, San Jose State University has emerged as the largest supplier of working engineers to high-technology companies in the region"