“Last month, Doug Kaye over at IT Conversations recorded an
interview with MIT professor and serial entrepreneur Philip
Greenspun. Greenspun’s most successful venture to date
(revenue-wise) was probably ArsDigita–an open source business that
flamed out after he handed the reins over to venture capitalists
who, he claims, ran a perfectly good company into the ground. Also
under Greenspun’s belt is photo.net (a prosumer photograhy site
that boasts of 10 million hits of day) and, my personal favorite, a
central role back in the 1980s with Symbolics Inc. About the same
time he was working for Symbolics, I was working on a Symbolics
system trying to learn the ropes of artificial intelligence and the
LISP programming language…”
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