The European entrepreneurial satisfiability problem

Tom Leighton is a very special person. He’s a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT as well as the founder of Akamai, a company that revolutionized multimedia content delivery in the late 90s and helped create the unified video-voice-image internet experience that we today enjoy. The Boolean satisfiability problem (affectionately known as SAT) is one […]

Starting up the hard way

thoughts on the European and Silicon Valley startup scenes There’s a scene in the “Muppet Movie” (1979), where Gonzo shares his dream of going to Mumbai to become a movie star. When told by Fozzie that “You don’t go to Mumbai to become a movie star! You go where we’re going: Hollywood!“, he retorts: “Sure, […]