Quite a contrast to that feverish day nearly three years ago when another software outfit, Red Hat, rose 272% on its first day.

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Spaihts is still mystified about how he comes up with ideas like the ones that occurred to him in the room that day, now three years ago.

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The financial crisis that began to unfold three years ago was our inevitable day of reckoning.

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