Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 1)

Prior to taking the helm of Armorize, Caleb Sima was co-founder and CTO to SPI Dynamics, the world’s leading and de facto standard for Web application security scanning. After being acquired by HP, Caleb was made HP’s Chief Technologist – Application Security Center, where he helped HP build a SaaS version of HP’s application security

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 7)

SM: What is Fotopedia’s business model? JH: The first step is to build significant traffic. We are not there at this point. We have been operating for one year, and we have learned how to get the community contributing content. Until recently, we did not spend enough energy on learning how to allow people to

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 6)

SM: Did you spend very much time learning how Flickr operated? JH: I never spent very much time focusing on one specific project except when I was younger and I was programming. I had a lot of questions in my mind, and I am not a very organized person, so I spent time sorting things

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 5)

SM: After NeXT was acquired by Apple, did you have any involvement at all with the company? JH: No. I traveled for some time, and while I was traveling I met Keith Teare at a conference in Bangkok. There were very few Internet cafés in Bangkok, and we ran into each other at one.

From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 4)

SM: From 1987 through the early 1990s, what were your thoughts about the future? JH: At that time I did not really foresee anything. It was the very beginning of NeXT. We had to get an operating system and the interface out the door.

From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 3)

SM: After you identified the need for an improved interface, what were your next intentions? JH: I did a project at the research institute for the interface that eventually became Interface Builder. At that time it was called the SOS Interface. I did it, and it was simple and beautiful. I was getting a lot

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 2)

SM: What made you decide to get a PhD? JH: My girlfriend was preparing to go to college, and she ended up going on vacation during her registration time slot. She asked me to go to the university and take care of her paperwork for her. I had to stand in line, and while I

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 1)

Jean-Marie Hullot was the CTO of NeXT and a close associate of Steve Jobs. He is also the the founder of Fotopedia, a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and enthusiasts collaborate on, curate, and share high-quality photography over the Internet. TechCrunch has given the social photo site and its iPhone and iPad apps a rave

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