Q&A: Dot-com-era icon Larry Augustin ventures into cloud software
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 06:30
in Mathematics & Economics
With the possible exception of the Pets.com puppet, nobody embodied the first Internet boom more than Larry Augustin. As the founder of VA Linux, he presided over one of the most eye-popping IPOs of all time-the company's shares soared 700 percent on their first day of trading in 1999. But the company just as quickly came crashing down, as the dot-coms that bought VA's hardware and software services went out of business.