David Weekly, Tinkering Before Millions

How to take a hobby hack and turn it into a service used by millions (and hopefully that MAKES millions).

David Weekly is the founder and CPO of PBwiki. PBwiki is the world's largest business wiki host and is home to over 500,000 communities, including groups at over at third of the Fortune 500. He graduated as a President Scholar from Stanford in 2000 with a BS in Computer Science and has worked for such institutions as Harvard Physics, MIT Lincoln Labs, Stanford Graphics, atWeb, Legato, and There.com. David wrote the first layman's level description of MP3 in early 1997, reverse engineered the Napster protocol in an evening, and was a finalist in the ACM International Programming Competition. David lives in a Cupertino mansion with seven others (he's the sommelier) and throws periodic all-night hackathons called SuperHappyDevHouse there. David is an adviser to several Bay Area startups, including Jaxtr, KiteDance, MusicManagement, and IncentAlign. He last spoke at PenLUG in November 2006.

Presentation Materials

• TinkeringBeforeMillions.ppt: Slides (PowerPoint format)
• TinkeringBeforeMillions.pdf: Slides (PDF format)

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