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He leveraged the YCombinator network to absorb a lot of information quickly. For example, I taught him basic networking (routers, switches, multicast/anycast, AS numbers, etc). I shared my 10 years of knowledge with him in a single two hour session because he's a genius, and then he ran from there, vastly exceeding my knowledge. I was there because Emmet asked Steve and Steve asked me to go over, and I was happy to help. I'm sure I wasn't the only one.


Like other sibling, I would be very much interested in a talk like this. Teaching networking with real world examples and explaining 2-3 large scale architectures w.r.t networking. Maybe a long video(or small series) and a follow-up on twitch for Q/A. Would even pay for this.


That's pretty nice. Quick look at articles show Emmet was the CEO. Which Steve is this? Huffman at Reddit?


Yes Steve Huffman


This is the talk I want to hear sometime.




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