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be Emin Gün Sirer>born in Istanbul, Turkey>get crammed into 50+ kids public-school classroom>fight your way into Robert College, elite bilingual high school>discover computers>decide broken systems are not acceptable>make it your mission to fix them>move to the US>study computer science at Princeton>go to University of Washington for PhD>master operating systems, distributed systems, networking>write thesis on secure, efficient, manageable virtual machines>think about scale + security long before “web3” ex ...