Sun King

Fast Company, August, 2005 by Paul B. Brown

Jonathan Schwartz President and chief operating officer, Sun Microsystems Inc. Jonathan Schwartz, 39, joined Sun Microsystems when the computer maker acquired his startup, Lighthouse Design, in 1996. He quickly took to the bigger company, heading investments, then strategy, then software, before becoming president in 2004. Here he talks about the importance of 14-hour plane trips, the delicacy that's required in penning a widely read blog (blogs.sun.com/jonathan), and the heartbreak of lost cell-phone calls.

There really is no difference between a 30-employee company and one of 30,000. It's always about your employees, customers, and market. It's just that in a big company, you have to go through a few more links in the management chain to contact the developer who works...

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