Jun 21 2022 73 mins
Chairman and Co-Founder of Scorbit, Jay Adelson, sits down with Network AF host Avi Freedman to talk about his history as a serial entrepreneur. Jay founded Equinix, Revision3, Opsmatic, and was the CEO of Digg. Throughout the conversation Jay and Avi touch on problems founders encounter, and discuss their mutual joy for gaming.
Highlights of the conversation include:
- Imposter syndrome and working at DEC
- Server evolution, power efficiency, and presentation
- How not to build a data center
- Terminating a cross connect and turning off service for Australia by accident
- Equinix during its hyper-growth phase
- Richard Clarke and peering
- The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- Amazing that the internet and the human body work at all
- Emergent behavior and the case of HD DVDs
- An evolution of the anarchy started by the internet
- Scorbit, gaming, and problem solving in pinball
- Advice and lessons to a young Jay