BIF-2 Summit: Peter Gloor
Peter Gloor is here to talk about Swarm Creativity. His journey started 20 years ago as a grad student when he was hacking some software for IBM. He became a banker, worked in industry, but in 1997, he returned to a paper he had written on his CyberMap software, and decided to start a company based on it. It didn’t work out, but was a great learning experience on how not to organize a company. He’s getting back to the core idea with iQuest Analytics. He’s not the CEO this time, just the crazy chief geek. This time they are applying the cybermap concept to people.
The lesson they learned from analyzing social networks was “Don’t be a star, be a galaxy.” The real measure of value is “betweenness”; the person who is a galaxy is more powerful (imagine if you connect to only two people, but those two people are George Bush and Bill Gates).
