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My Take
Larry Augustin's story makes me grin. A Notre Dame-trained engineer turned entrepreneur, he founded VA Research, later Geeknet, and was a paper billionaire at 38 during the dot-com boom. The wealth is the eye-catching part, but what I respect is his appearance in Revolution OS, the documentary chronicling open source's rise. He bet on a build-it-together philosophy before that was the safe or lucrative thing to do. Later steering SugarCRM as chairman and serving as a VP at Amazon Web Services proves he could operate as well as evangelize. A technologist who is equally fluent in code and commerce always earns my admiration, and he clearly is.
Overview
Larry Augustin (born October 10, 1962) is a former VP at Amazon Web Services. He formerly was the chairman of the board of directors of SugarCRM. He is a former venture capitalist and the founder of VA Research (later Geeknet). During the height of the dot-com bubble, Augustin was a billionaire on paper at the age of 38. Augustin is featured in the 2001 documentary film Revolution OS.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Larry Augustin
- Name (Japanese)
- ラリー・オーガスティン
- Reading
- らりー・おーがすてぃん
- Born
- October 10, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Tiger
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- engineer / computer scientist / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Notre Dame
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.