A History of Silicon Valley
This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"
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(Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi)
Pradeep Sindhu
Pradeep Sindhu (India, 1953) studied
at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur until 1974 and then moved
to the USA. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Hawaii
until 1976, and graduated in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University
in 1982.
In september 1984 he joined the
Computer Science Lab at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he
remained until february 1996.
Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson and Bjorn Liencres founded Juniper Networks in 1996
in Sunnyvale to manufacture high-end routers in direct competition with Cisco.
When it went public in 1999, its IPO was one of the most successful in history, turning it overnight into a $4.9 billion company.
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