Eric Brewer and Inktomi
Computer History Museum has this talk by Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley) where he goes over the rise and fall of Inktomi. For anyone remotely interested in the history of the Internet, case studies of startup companies, insight into the Internet bubble, or technology research in general; I would highly recommend watching this talk.
Inktomi was founded in 1996, by Eric and a Berkeley grad student, and went onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. Yahoo search and MSN search are still powered by the Inktomi engine. Eric actually got quite emotional at times talking about Intkomi and I can clearly relate to why.
At the end he talks about the time when his 10% shares in Inktomi were worth a billion USD and he got interested in doing something for the "third world countries". Eric is the program co-chair for the ACM SIGCOMM NSDR workshop, Japan, Aug 2007 that I am organizing (along with Umar Saif). NSDR'07 is specifically aimed at bringing the benefits of networking technologies to the third world.
Below is the GoogleVideo embedded video of the talk:
Inktomi was founded in 1996, by Eric and a Berkeley grad student, and went onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. Yahoo search and MSN search are still powered by the Inktomi engine. Eric actually got quite emotional at times talking about Intkomi and I can clearly relate to why.
At the end he talks about the time when his 10% shares in Inktomi were worth a billion USD and he got interested in doing something for the "third world countries". Eric is the program co-chair for the ACM SIGCOMM NSDR workshop, Japan, Aug 2007 that I am organizing (along with Umar Saif). NSDR'07 is specifically aimed at bringing the benefits of networking technologies to the third world.
Below is the GoogleVideo embedded video of the talk:
