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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Wiretap Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2000 by Delevett, Peter
Oct. 10--Because of the relative youth of the tech industry, Silicon Valley tends not to be a place where famous fathers produce famous sons and daughters who come up in the family business.
Unlike in other parts of the country, you don't see a lot of "Hewlett, Packard & Sons" out here. Among the exceptions to that are venture capitalists William Draper (whose son, Tim, is carving out a VC empire of his own) and Floyd Kvamme (proud pop of former USWeb/CKS Chairman Mark Kvamme).
Into that relative handful of names, you might now add Warnock -- as in Adobe Systems Inc. Chief Executive John Warnock.
Warnock's 33-year-old son, Chris, is the CEO of a Sunnyvale start-up called ebrary.com. The somewhat awkward moniker is a contraction of the words,...
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