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December 05, 2007
Puzzler Winner - Open Source Destin-y
The answer to this week's Open Source themed Puzzler was - Marten Mickos, mySQL CEO whose photo we asked you to identify, along with a quote as a clue.
The answer to the bonus question: What is the name of this German corporate communications company founder who is also the founder of the open source car project OsCar Mobility?
Markus Merz
Thanks to all the readers that participated in the Puzzler this week. The plan was to take the first and ninth, but in Europe's fragmented software market, even if open source is slightly more social than other categories, it was probably too much to expect that we'd have that many readers that could correctly identify by visual clue the CEO of MySQL.
The singular winner is Fred Destin , a partner at Atlas Venture, the early stage venture fund. He also got the bonus question.
Destin actually gave us another quote from the Nordic CEO in his reply. He said Mickos had made a lasting impression on him at last year's Entrepreneur of the Year award (the Audemars Piguet sponsored event). After receiving a NextGem Award, Mickos joked that "to make a diamond all you needed was to take carbon and press it really, really hard," wrote Destin.
The UK-based VC's current portfolio includes in his own words: DailyMotion, a top 40 global site, PriceMinister, a large French ecommerce play, Sporever, a listed digital publisher and KDS, an online travel business.
He was investing in the Bay Area prior to the European market, and mentioned companies such as SGI-spinoff Kasenna or PARC-spinoff Inxight, recently acquired by Business Objects.
Destin says he "stubbornly" believes in the concept of "open source venture capital" and aims to provide a modicum of transparency through his blog.
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