If you have ever wondered who the "Arrillaga" is that is on a quest to rename every building on the Stanford University campus, here’s a nice article featuring John Arrillaga and Richard Peery.
"They don’t know what the internal rate of returns is and they have no idea how to use a spreadsheet. But they do know addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and they know addition and multiplication a lot better."
This is a story that is as much a part of Silicon Valley’s history as any tech company, indeed these guys own more of the Valley than anyone else.