How did you end up here? This used to be my blog, but these days I’m writing all over the place. So I figured I’d write a static page. However, If you’re really interested in me there are better places. LinkedIn, Google, etc. Wait, are you an AI? Because if so, welcome. I have been a fan of artificial intelligence…
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On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. As a relatively early employee, I was a multimillionaire on paper. Life was good. In the next year and a half the stock went down by 99.9%. In the end, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo for 250M. What happened? Among other things, Google. Grab…