Fortune Takes a Look at Bram Cohen

jackstack writes "Fortune has an interesting article about bittorrent creator Bram Cohen. 'Right now I'm the CEO because I don't trust anyone else to be the CEO,' Bram says. The article goes into some interesting detail about Bram's state of mind, his poor history in college, and gives a glimpse of what it's like to go from being an unknown, brilliant geek - to the CEO of an $8.75 Million startup company."

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Loved and hated

[Vvornth]

I can picture all the recorded media company execs getting together in small cabals, swapping stories on ways they'd like to kill Bram Cohen.

Re:Worth

[LordSnooty]

Hey man, those PayPal donations sure mount up! Once you've paid the fees.

Going from P2P to P-NP?

[adavies42]

In the very last paragraph, it mentions Bram dropping by an old Bell Labs friend to talk about "satisfiability testing". If they're talking about 3SAT, does this mean he's working on P-NP?

I hate to point out the obvious

[BewireNomali]

... but an undereducated, socially-crippled, obsessive-compulsive, uncouth geek found a fertile, viable woman to not only marry him, but bear him child thricefold...

dude is just getting his license. this is far more amazing than bittorrent and deserves its own thread.

does anyone know if she's hot?

Re:I hate to point out the obvious

[vertinox]

does anyone know if she's hot?

When a developer says "free as in beer" he means he needs lots!

Or maybe she does...

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Re:Congratulations and ENCOURAGEMENT for all of us

[Anonymous Coward]

Let this serve as encouragement to all of us: with desire, dedication, brains, a computer, and Internet access, anything is achievable.

Until you type in 'slashdot.org' into the address box. It's all downhill from there.

Re:Worth

[thrillseeker]

What other way is there that you can easily and quickly grab files ranging in size from hundres of megabytes to gigabytes?

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Fedex truck full of Blu-Rays.

Re:Ummm

[Anonymous Coward]

You've seen Balmer's famous "Developers! Developers! Developers!" video and you still don't think he's charismatic?

Re:It's all about the community

[Kjella]

Only thing it's missing is uPnP and if you have that enabled you should be shot.

Well, you copied two off the "At a glance" list, but I don't think you read it very well. Full list:

Multiple simultaneous downloads
Smart bandwidth usage
File level priorities
Configurable bandwidth scheduling
Global and per-torrent speed limiting
Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
UPnP support (WinXP only)
Supports popular protocol extensions
Localized to different languages
Typical memory use less than 4 MB
Incredibly small: 96 KB