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To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Because of the phenomenal technology, timing and team, the Akamai IPO became one of the most successful IPOs of that era.

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IPO Lewin CTO Conference

Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. People sat alone, mostly.

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor

To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

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