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Fortune Takes a Look at Bram Cohen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-can't-beat-em-join-em dept.

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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  1. Ummm by cached · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't mean to troll, but given that he has Asperger's Syndrome, should it not be in his best interest to give the job of CEO to somebody who is more charismatic (in the sense that he can communicate exactly what people will want to hear), in an attempt to gain extra customers?

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    +1 funny, -2 overrated. Life isn't fair.
    1. Re:Ummm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      "Also, I can't imagine why anybody would *want* to claim they're one of us if they aren't."

      You'd be surprised.

      While it may not be present (or at least prevalent) in your circles, it's rather "popular" for teens to claim to have some kind of disorder. Whether it's Aspergers, dyslexia, bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, OCD. I've seen threads on sites like deviantART dedicated to things like "What kind of mental problem do you have?" and the post numbers are in the thousands, with people claiming to have all sorts of problems but offering no information when asked about diagnosis. Some even claim to have combinations of disorders that would be impossible to have in reality. I'm guessing it makes them feel "special" or "different." Like this one.

  2. Congratulations and ENCOURAGEMENT for all of us by Work+Account · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bram Cohen, congratulations on your accomplisments.

    May you continue to live a productive and happy life and continue offering innovative and hopefully open source software.

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

    Do what you do best; for most of us this is coding!

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