Larry Augustin

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.

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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 64)

Occupation

engineer / computer scientist / businessperson

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

University

University of Notre Dame

• Official sitehttp://lmaugustin.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/lmaugustin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Augustin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1000408

Tags

• engineer
• computer scientist
• businessperson

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.