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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:<ul><li>Imposter syndrome and working at DEC</li><li>Server evolution, power efficiency, and presentation</li><li>How not to build a data center</li><li>Terminating a cross connect and turning off service for Australia by accident</li><li>Equinix during its hyper-growth phase</li><li>Richard Clarke and peering</li><li>The Forrest Gump of the Internet</li><li>Amazing that the internet and the human body work at all</li><li>Emergent behavior and the case of HD DVDs</li><li>An evolution of the anarchy started by the internet</li><li>Scorbit, gaming, and problem solving in pinball</li><li>Advice and lessons to a young Jay</li></ul>

Jay Adelson is a serial entrepreneur, having built companies such as Equinix, Digg, Revision3, SimpleGeo, Opsmatic and Scorbit. Jay currently serves as Chairman and Co-Founder at Scorbit, a connected gaming company, as well as Co-Founder and General Partner of Center Electric, LLC, a venture firm he started with Andy Smith in 2014.

In late 2012, Jay co-founded Opsmatic, Inc., serving as Chairman. Opsmatic was sold to New Relic in October, 2015.

Jay served as CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc., in October, 2010, and sold them to Urban Airship in November, 2011.

Jay helped launch Digg, Inc. with Kevin Rose and provided business strategy to the company starting in October, 2004. He served as CEO beginning in 2005 and officially assumed the role full time when he formally resigned from Equinix, Inc. in October, 2005. Jay left the company at its peak in April, 2010.

In March of 2005, Jay co-founded and was CEO of Revision3 Corporation. He hired Jim Louderback to run Revision3 as CEO in June of 2007 and remained Chairman until their sale to Discovery Communications in May, 2012.

Jay founded Equinix (EQIX) in 1998 with Al Avery, and was responsible for the sustaining business model which led to Equinix's international success. During his seven years at Equinix, Jay provided technical leadership as Equinix's CTO, designing their products, datacenters, leading research and development, and helping drive their successful IPO.

On July 15, 2003, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science and Research & Development, as part of an industry panel on "The Private Sector's Role in Keeping America's Cyberspace Secure."

In 2008, Jay was selected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Jay Adelson

Chairman, Co-Founder at Scorbit

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.



Problem solving and pinball with Jay Adelson

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