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Gene Kan was born on 6 September, 1976 in United Kingdom, is a Gene Kan was British born Chinese American peer to peer file sharing. Discover Gene Kan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 26 years old?
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26 years old |
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Virgo |
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6 September 1976 |
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6 September |
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United Kingdom |
| Date of death |
2002 |
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Northern California, California, United States |
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United Kingdom
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Gene Kan Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Gene Kan Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Gene Kan worth at the age of 26 years old? Gene Kan’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Gene Kan's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Gene Kan (September 6, 1976 — June 29, 2002) was a British-born Chinese American peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer who was among the first programmers to produce an open-source version of the file-sharing application that implemented the Gnutella protocol.
Kan worked together with Spencer Kimball on the program called "gnubile" licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Kan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a major in electrical engineering and computer science, and was a member of the student club the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF).
In June 2000, when Kan was 24, he formed a distributed search engine known as InfraSearch.com with Steve Waterhouse and another friend.
Kan was relatively well known in internet circles for a testimony he gave in July 2000 at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age".
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, Sony CEO Fred Ehrlich, and others also gave testimony at the hearing.
In his account, as the United States Senate decides the fate of companies like Napster, he stressed that "technology moves forward and leaves the stragglers behind," and that "the adopters always win, and the stalwarts always lose".
Kan was advocate of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing and some credit him, along with other Gnutella pioneers, as its originator.
He argued that it is part of an emergent technological area called distributive computing.
InfraSearch was purchased by Sun Microsystems on March 6, 2001 for $12.5M USD in Sun stock options.
The acquisition became part of the JXTA project at Sun.
Kan joined Sun as an employee, and continued to work with the technology.
On June 29, 2002, he committed suicide.
The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head.
Prior to taking his life, Kan updated an electronic copy of his resume hosted on a University of California, Berkeley server to read "Summary: Sad example of a human being. Specializing in failure."
An independent documentary film was planned for Gene Kan after he died, but it never started production.
