Entrepreneur compares building a company to taking a bike trip
In his free public lecture at the University of Waterloo next week, Mike Stonebraker, noted scholar and successful entrepreneur, will draw parallels between his bicycle trip across the U.S. during the summer of 1988 and building his company, Postgres
He will discuss similarities between the two seemingly dissimilar endeavours, including the roles perseverance and serendipity play in both.
Stonebraker is a pioneer of data base research and technology, a professor at MIT, and the 2014 winner of the A.C.M. Turing Award, considered the highest honour in computer science.
The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box (How Riding a Bicycle across America and Building Postgres Have a Lot in Common)
Date: Monday, September 14, 2015 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Humanities Theatre, J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities, University of Waterloo
