I got to know Jim Guzy on the football field. My school, Hillview Elementary, was playing against Fremont Elementary in flag football. They had this kid who was crazy fast on the field. That was Jim Guzy. Later, he became an electrical engineer and innovator. Jim and his brilliant friend, Wei-Ti Liu, came to me with a business to design semiconductors that provided a bus interface between the memory, the processor, and the peripherals of the computer. I told them I would invest if Jim's father, Jim Guzy Sr., would match my investment. Jim Sr. was the founder of Memorex and was on the board of Intel at the time. He matched. Then, together, we all recruited Mike Salameh, a recent Harvard MBA graduate, to become CEO of the business. PLX Technology was founded in 1986 by Wei-Ti Liu, Jim Guzy, and Mike Salameh. Today, every computer, server, consumer electronics product, game console, automobile, and IoT device has multiple bus interface devices. A cell phone alone has about 20 bus interfaces from a camera serial interface to a USB interface to a display interface. There are maybe as many as 100 billion bus interfaces in the world today. PLX went on to have a successful IPO and fifteen years later was acquired by Broadcom. Fast in football, brilliant in business. Jim Guzy was the real deal.

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