Though it has little to do with the parent post's point, technical development of both V8 and HotSpot was led by Lars Bak. V8 didn't come about because of the

Though it has little to do with the parent post's point, technical development of both V8 and HotSpot was led by Lars Bak. V8 didn't come about because of the JVM, but it was done by the same guy who wrote the JVM.