Gun Sirer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Sirer works on self-organizing systems, which span operating systems, networking and distributed systems. He likes building things, especially systems that have some principled reason for why they should work. His current projects involve peer-to-peer systems, systems support for ad hoc networks, and operating systems.
Sirer's comments are from a panel on Information Technology Entrepreneurship from Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
Gun Sirer received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.S and Ph.D. from University of Washington.
When we did the venture capital funded effort back in 1998, I found that getting too much money early could be detrimental to a company, at least in our case that was definitely true, in that it induces you to try and create the accoutrements of a large heavyweight, top heavy company even before the...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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