one of the wealthiest family in seatle.
his grandfather founded national city bank, her mother sitting in the board of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. His father is a prominent corporate lawyer.

In 1967, he went to Lakeside prep school, the tuition is 5000$, at the same year, Harvard's tuition is 1760$. Typical classmates included the McCaw brothers, who sold the cellular phone licenses they obtained from the U.S. Government to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1994. When the kids there wanted to use a computer, they got their moms to hold a rummage sale and raise $3,000 to buy time on a DEC PDP-10, the same machine used by computer science researchers at Stanford and MIT.