Video: Ashwin Navin on the History of BitTorrent

Written by enigmax on May 12, 2007 

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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3 Responses

1 May 20, 2007 at 03:43 by lsdiats

are you kidding? “he commited this great crime’ what an idiot. he would have nothing to commercialize right now if bittorrent hadn’t been free and spread.

2 Jul 16, 2007 at 10:16 by clueless

lsdiats, he was being sarcastic.. people misalign cohen for committing a crime in creating a P2P filesharing tool, but navin is cutting that argument at his knees. how can someone be a criminal for giving away a piece of code?? its freedom of speech.

3 Jan 11, 2008 at 23:37 by Google

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