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The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 2)
SM: Did Anna go to Google after it went public? TC: She went there before it went public. Google was in a total panic as Yahoo! had come out with a competitive product. Google was in a hyper phase of trying to make things better, which is a terrible thing to do. They got nothing
The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 1)
Tom Costello has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University. His emphasis is artificial intelligence (AI), and aside from teaching he has worked as a researcher at Stanford for DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. He was one of the founders of Xift, and he later worked at IBM. Today his research in the area
From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 7)
SM: Since you have set up the company as an equity-based structure, you are going to have to exit it. If you were going to keep it you would have needed a different structure. MM: Definitely. We would like to sell the company as a strategic acquisition to a company that can make use of
From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 6)
SM: What was your ultimate design goal? MM: The first problem we aimed to solve was how to make a re-transmission machine, a control system that retransmits data at a rate that matches the channel capacity for any packet loss rate over the channel and any delay. That was our design goal.
From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 5)
SM: You were able to find a starting point in the open source community? MM: I found a good model from a different domain that we experimented with, and it worked well. That was the point at which we started making the protocol.
From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 4)
SM: What was the problem the digital media companies were facing that you wanted to solve? MM: I knew it was a problem in application layer networking, which was something I had always had an interest in. I liked the theoretical underpinnings of it. I could see there was a layer which was unsolved.
From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 3)
SM: Concepts coming before their time happens a lot here in Silicon Valley. MM: It sure does. However, it was my first real experience in a startup with a peer group I was excited about. Partly because of my inquisitive nature, they used to send me out to customers as well. I gained a lot
From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 2)
SM: How large did the ISP become? MM: It was not very impressive. It had 700–800 subscribers and was entirely local. It was nothing like a serious business.