Larry Augustin

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Larry Augustin is CEO of SugarCRM and is a former venture capitalist and the co-founder and former chairman of VA Software, now known as Geeknet. He founded VA Research, the predecessor to that company, in 1993 while a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University. While at VA, he was one of the driving forces behind the creation of SourceForge, a popular collaborative software development management system.^[1]

He currently^[when?] serves on the board of several companies, including DotNetNuke, Fonality, the Free Standards Group, JBoss, Linux International, MedSphere, the OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, Hyperic, Compiere, Zend Technologies and Appcelerator.^[1] Larry Augustin is also featured in the 2001 documentary film Revolution OS.

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Interviews

• Audio interview on FLOSS Weekly
• Audio interview on the LinuxWorld blog.
• Interview on Slashdot
• Interview on Linux Journal

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