Ashwin Navin, CEO and President of BitTorrent Inc, talks a little about the history of BitTorrent, from its creation in 2001 by the unemployed engineer Bram Cohen, through to its strong position today in 2007.
From its humble, non-commercial startup in 2001, BitTorrent achieved 15-20 million users by 2004. Hear a little bit about how it got there from Ashwin Navin, ex-Yahoo Corporate Development guru and now, CEO and President of BitTorrent Inc.
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