Carl Sagan was the bridge between what a few had discovered and what many could understand.
Five years ago Sony, Warner and five artists sued Sagan for streaming their footage and recordings.
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But Burt Rutan, 61, has only ever read one sci-fi book: Carl Sagan's Contact.
"The Internet is getting bigger and bigger, but it's not getting better and better, " Sagan says.
"People told us what we were doing was both crazy and impossible, " Sagan says.
Sagan reacted immediately to join him at the front before Team Sky's Boasson Hagen bridged the gap.
Yet through it all Sagan and others stubbornly clung to their belief in "the Big Idea"--Danny's idea.
In 1991 Sagan jumped to Time Warner, where he worked on some of the earliest Internet ventures.
Under Sagan's leadership Akamai's invisible network has continued to encroach on more of the traditional, overtrafficked Internet.
Mr. SAGAN: So the Security Council has to make a judgment about whether those withdrawal reasons are legitimate.
Sagan says the company continues to benefit from four key trends: cloud, Web security, mobile and online video.
New Internet users add value to the network only if they can connect to one another, says Sagan.
"Paul is the best manager I've ever worked with, " says Walter Isaacson, Sagan's old boss at Time Warner.
If I was Sagan, I would have asked Kenny what his primary responsibility was these days: Akamai or Yahoo!
The position was a new one for Akamai, reported to CEO Paul Sagan.
Sagan has been president of the company since 1999 and CEO since 2005.
"He would say: No one would want to do that, " Mr. Sagan said.
Then Sagan himself signed on, as employee number 15, becoming chief operating officer.
Paul Sagan has ridden hard over the wildest extremes of the Internet economy.
And there was this: "We had to do it for Danny, " Sagan says.
For those of us of a certain age, the majesty and poetry of the heavens was written by Carl Sagan.
Sagan notes that despite soft macro conditions in some markets, international revenues were up 22%, or 30% adjusted for currency.
Sagan believes Akamai has figured out superior ways to deliver anything digital: basketball games, phone calls, software, feature films, anything.
Akamai this afternoon said that CEO Paul Sagan plans to step down from his post by the end of 2013.
Sagan noted that the company in 2012 will introduce refreshed or major new products in every category in which it competes.
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Actor Gerard Depardieu and writer Francoise Sagan also were among the 200 attending the service, which was off-limits to the media.
With startups going broke by the hundreds, Sagan realized Danny's grand vision sounded to the world like all the other dot-com blather.
" Sagan adds: "This was Danny's vision, and we are building it.
Showing a coolness which belied his inexperience, Sagan timed his final burst perfectly to cross the line with his arms raised in triumph.
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