Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin is CEO of SugarCRM^[1] and is a former venture capitalist and the co-founder and former chairman of VA Software, now known as Geeknet. Augustin holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. 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 people behind the creation of SourceForge, a collaborative software development management system.^[2]^[3]

As of January 2016 he serves on the board of SugarCRM^[4] and Appcelerator.^[2]^[5] Augustin is featured in the 2001 documentary film Revolution OS.

References

↑ "Executive Leadership". SugarCRM. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
1 2 "Larry Augustin". Azure Capital Partners.
↑ Dana Blankenhorn. "What a decade taught Larry Augustin". ZDNet. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
↑ "SugarCRM Board of Directors". Retrieved January 12, 2016.
↑ "Board of Directors". Retrieved January 12, 2016.

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