jerry bali

every bad situation has something positive.Even a dead clock shows the correct time twice a day

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

Spotify wanted one Swedish coder so badly, they bought his 300KB masterpiece just to get him.
You’ve used his code your whole life. You’ve never heard his name. 🤯

Meet Ludvig Strigeus 🇸🇪

> Swedish software engineer. Born January 1981. Goes by "Ludde" online.
> Studied Computer Science at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.
> 2001 ~ at age 20, fell in love with old LucasArts adventure games.
> Problem: those games only ran on ancient PCs.
> So he reverse-engineered them ~ took apart their code, line by line.
> Built ScummVM ~ a free tool that runs Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, and 100+ retro games on any modern device.
> 2004 ~ did the same with Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
> Built OpenTTD ~ a free clone, still played by millions today.
> 2005 ~ at age 24, hated how bloated existing BitTorrent apps were.
> Built µTorrent. Alone. In under 300 KB ~ smaller than a single high-res photo.
> Rapidly became the most popular file-sharing client on Earth ~ over 150 million users at peak.
> 2006 ~ Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were starting a music app called Spotify.
> They wanted one programmer to build their streaming engine ~ him.
> They didn't just recruit him. They bought µTorrent in late 2006 just to get him on the team.
> Two months later, they sold µTorrent to BitTorrent Inc. and kept Ludde.
> "Spotify bought µTorrent, but what we really wanted was Ludvig Strigeus," former Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn later said.
> He led the development of Spotify's core streaming engine ~ the technology that lets songs play instantly with zero buffer.
> Lives with a rare muscular disease. Uses a wheelchair. Has done so for years.
> Codes from his apartment in Gothenburg.
> Won 5 prestigious Swedish honors between 2006 and 2023 ~ including the Polhem Prize, Sweden's highest technology award, and an honorary doctorate from Chalmers. 🚀
> Elected fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2023.
> 2026 ~ left Spotify after nearly 2 decades. Joined Nordan AI ~ a Stockholm AI lab building Europe's answer to Palantir.
> Never founded a company. Never gave a TED talk. Never sought equity.
> No Twitter. No interviews.

He built the era of file-sharing.
Then built the era of streaming.
Now quietly building the era of AI.
No fame. No equity. Nothing in his name.

Software GOAT. 🐐

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

Reality is only what you make it

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

Something foolish ,something creative and something generous

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

Kindness is not kindness if you expect a favour

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

Give up,give in or give it your all

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

The importance of empathy in negotiation http://t.co/L4hSsnNUA6

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

Guns don't kill people,people kill people.unto pastors requesting for firearms.

[Andreas Olofsson @zeroasic]

The first Parallella cluster!! 756 CPU cores, less than 500 Watts total system power.

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

Education makes people easy to lead but hard to drive:easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

[jerry bali @cryptoo]

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[jerry bali @cryptoo]

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[jerry bali @cryptoo]

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[jerry bali @cryptoo]

life is the most difficult exam.many pple fail because they try to copy others not realising that everyone has a different question paper.