# Scott Sellers

> Scott Sellers is the co-founder, President, and CEO of Azul, the Sunnyvale-based company that has spent two decades making Java run faster, cheaper, and freer from Oracle's licensing grip. Before Azul, he co-founded 3dfx Interactive, the graphics company that gave PCs real-time 3D before NVIDIA bought it. Eight patents, a Princeton EE degree (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and a backup-quarterback origin story round out a quietly relentless career.

- **Role:** President, CEO & Co-Founder at Azul
- **Organizations:** Azul, 3dfx Interactive, Pellucid, MediaVision, Silicon Graphics
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S., Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Princeton University
- **Known for:** Eight patents in high-performance graphics and computing, Co-founded 3dfx Interactive, the company that brought hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to consumer PCs, Co-founded and scaled Azul to 530+ employees with $177M+ total funding

## Career timeline

- **1990** — Joins Silicon Graphics as a member of technical staff designing high-performance workstations
- **1990s** — CPU systems architect at Pellucid (later acquired by MediaVision)
- **1994** — Co-founds 3dfx Interactive; serves as VP Engineering, CTO, and board director
- **1997** — 3dfx IPO; Voodoo graphics chips define consumer 3D on the PC
- **2000** — NVIDIA acquires 3dfx
- **2002** — Co-founds Azul Systems with Gil Tene and Shyam Pillalamarri
- **2005** — Azul ships Vega compute appliances, custom silicon tuned for Java
- **2010** — Pivots Azul from hardware to software: Zing JVM and Zulu OpenJDK builds
- **2020** — Vitruvian Partners acquisition recapitalizes Azul
- **2023-2025** — Launches Azul Intelligence Cloud, JVM Inventory; rides Oracle Java licensing backlash

## Achievements

- Eight patents in high-performance graphics and computing
- Co-founded 3dfx Interactive, the company that brought hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to consumer PCs
- Co-founded and scaled Azul to 530+ employees with $177M+ total funding
- Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton
- Frequent keynote speaker on Java, JVMs, and cloud cost optimization

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Azul announced a strategic transaction (categorized as merger/acquisition activity) extending growth capital.
- **2025** — Azul Intelligence Cloud and JVM Inventory expand to help enterprises audit and migrate Oracle Java estates.

## Links

- Website: https://www.azul.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssellers
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AzulSystems
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AzulSystemsInc

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Last updated: 2026-05-30