As they gradually began to link the computer systems, they went on to link the entire computer systems that were spread across the entire school. And it was this that powered their ambition to set up Cisco Systems, Inc. However, it has also been rumored that the main objective behind Sandy Lerner and Leonard Bosack connecting their systems, was to send romantic letters to each other. Role: As their technology boomed, contracts began to flow in rapidly.
More and more clients wanted them to link their systems with the router technology. Therefore, it was natural that Lerner and Bosack quitted their jobs and pursued on serving their clients with their technology on a full-time basis. Initially, they were burdened with the task of keeping the business afloat.
They even hired friends and neighbors by providing them deferred salaries and stock options. Furthermore, they mortgaged their homes and went deep into credit card debt to keep their business going. External Funding — It was after 3 years of bootstrapping that the couple finally received external funding from a venture capitalist named Donald Valentine.
And it was this step that marked their final days at the company. When Valentine came abroad to provide funding to Cisco Systems, Inc. Hearing this, Leonard too resigned to show his support for Sandy. Previously, before they were fired, Cisco System, Inc. They soon began to sell their stocks and completely retired from the company.
With their new-found wealth, the couple established the Bosack Kruger Charitable Foundation. They funded several philanthropic projects via this. A few of such include:. However, these are not the only philanthropic acts of Sandy Lerner.
Even today, she continues to work for animal welfare and organic produce for the betterment of humankind. Your support is highly appreciated]. When Sandy was ousted from her own company, it was natural that Sandy felt highly dejected and broken.
By taking part in multiple philanthropic projects, she gradually recovered and began to look for a need in the marketplace which she could fulfill. This need brought her to Virginia, more specifically the Ayrshire Farm in When she first saw the acre farm, she instantly understood that it was a highly neglected asset.
Her farm mission has been promoting the benefits of locally produced organic products and also the community, and children through education. It also funded Urban Decay Cosmetics. Sandy Lerner was previously married to her business partner Leonard X. They worked on various projects together and also co-founded American multinational technology conglomerate, Cisco Systems, Inc.
The company is known for developing, manufacturing and offering networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other technological products in the market. The former business partner went separate ways following the divorce and are focused on their own projects. She is also a cat lover and published a book of art imitating cats called Caticons in August Sandy Lerner stands at a tall height above 5 feet and 4 inches.
She is a successful businesswoman who has now established herself as a popular philanthropist. She also invested for the restoration of the Chawton House through the foundation which she shares with her ex-spouse. She also received the Pioneer Award in November The biography of Sandy Lerner is prepared by various wiki sites including Wikipedia.
Sandy Lerner after a successful business journey, has now lived life involving in the field of her interest and hobbies. Add Comment. In , through the foundation she shares with Leonard Bosack, she invested money into the restoration of Chawton House , the manor house in the English county of Hampshire that had been owned by Jane Austen 's brother, Edward Austen Knight. The Chawton House Library has a collection of over 9, books, mainly related to the literary genre of women's writing , and original manuscripts.
The Library works in partnership with the University of Southampton , and provides an important resource for the university's MA in 18th Century Study. She started moving to Virginia in She primarily resides at her acre 3. The circa, room Edwardian mansion of native fieldstone has since been restored and is used for a variety of social functions under Lerner's direction.
In November , she published a sequel to Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice titled Second Impressions using the pen name of Ava Farmer for "a Virginia farmer" ; she plans to make it into a movie. Still eager to manage a company, Lerner looked for another market void to fill, and came up with an idea for a cosmetics line that steered clear of the standard girlish pinks and reds in nail polish and lipstick. Inspired in part by the dark-red, nearly black "Vamp" nail color introduced by Chanel that was selling out at makeup counters across North America, Lerner decided to create a line of alternative shades of lipstick and nail color.
In mid, she founded the company, which she called Urban Decay, and installed her accountant as its president. This left her free to concentrate on the creative side of the business. Urban Decay products came on the market in January of and were an instant smash. Its nailvarnish palette had punk-rock names like Bruise, Pallor, Smog, and Roach, and stayed in the blue-green-purple-black spectrum, with a few odd white choices thrown in.
Male celebrities, from rock stars to athletes, even liked the nail lacquers, and Urban Decay was said to have helped launch the nail polish-on-men trend. Lerner was also busy with her philanthropic ventures. She helped create PetLink, a database system of missing and up-for-adoption cats and dogs that linked local shelters to one another. She bought an acre property in Loudoun County, Virginia, called Ayrshire Farm that was home to her own impressive collection of cats, cattle, and English Shire horses, which she sometimes rode in Elizabethan jousting contests.
It also became a working farm dedicated to promoting the virtues of organically grown produce. She had a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and was a rare-book collector, spurred in part by her love of the Jane Austen novels of the early s. She had read Austen's Persuasion some 60 times, she once admitted, having discovered Austen during her graduate-school days. Her time at Stanford involved "a pretty hellish computer science-mathematics" curriculum, she recalled in an Independent Sunday article by Laura Tennant, and she found the Austen works "a wonderful escape into a kind of civilized, humorous world, a thinking person's escape.
Lerner's passion for Austen's work eventually led to her purchase of Chawton House, a manor dating back to the s in Hampshire, England. It had once been owned by a well-to-do family who adopted Austen's brother as their heir.
Though Edward Austen did not use it as his primary residence, he spent regular intervals there, and installed his mother, Austen, and another sister in the nearby village of Chawton. They were regular visitors to the estate, which is considered the model for the "Great House" mentioned in Austen's fiction.
By the twentieth century, however, it had fallen into disrepair, and a consortium was established to turn it into a golf resort. The group succeeded in buying back the acres surrounding the manor house before it went bankrupt. Lerner acquired the house and land on a year lease, and turned it into a research facility for early English women writers.
Lerner donated to the Chawton House Library her 7,volume collection of tomes by and about early English female writers. These are works that came before Austen, whose handful of novels published in a few short years before her death established her as the first significant female novelist in English.
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