October 17, 2005
BitTorrent's Bram Cohen
Fortune has a great article on Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, on what he is up to lately. As much as I want to root for Bram to well, after reading this article I kind of doubt he has the business street smarts to be a successful CEO. Remember there was the technical genius of the Woz and the business/marketing genius of Steve Jobs at Apple.Last month venture firm DCM-Doll Capital Management bet that Cohen could indeed make BitTorrent a business, investing $8.75 million in the startup. Now Cohen has to prove himself again, showing that he can thrive not just in the programming world—a place where logic rules and theories can be proved true or false—but in the fuzzy corporate world too, where compromise reigns and intellect doesn’t always trump idiocy.
