Don MacAskill
CEO & Chief Geek, SmugMug

Don MacAskill is the co-founder, CEO, and Chief Geek at SmugMug. Back in the mists of time, Don built the network that powered eBay, Hotmail, and fatbrain. He lost his mind and spent an exhilarating few years making video games, but found it again with SmugMug. With no outside investment, he bootstrapped SmugMug into a business that’s profitable and growing – but most of all, fun!

Sessions

1:00pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008

Success: A Survival Guide

Operations
Location: Salon E

Adam Jacob (Opscode), Shayan Zadeh (Zoosk, Inc. ), Brian Moon (dealnews.com), Don MacAskill (SmugMug), John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Michael Halligan (DatacenterJunkie), Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)

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Success comes suddenly, and often means scaling from tens of servers to thousands in a few hours. This panel will explore what happens when you get TechCrunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, and even "Oprahed"... all at once. The focus will be on what the traffic looks like, how you can do to prepare in advance, and what to do when it happens. Read more.