{"id":4973,"date":"2022-05-30T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2022-05-30T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:00:18","slug":"silicon-valley-tech-litigation-veteran-bob-zeidman-pivots-to-the-online-casino-realm-with-good-beat-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/silicon-valley-tech-litigation-veteran-bob-zeidman-pivots-to-the-online-casino-realm-with-good-beat-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Tech Litigation Veteran Bob Zeidman Pivots to the Online Casino Realm with Good Beat Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIn poker, you have to get lucky, even the best players have to get lucky. It reminds me in some ways of business.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n The story starts out at the heart of Silicon Valley. The year is 1981. A bright-eyed young man by the name of Bob Zeidman watches his dream come to life before his eyes. The acceptance to Stanford prompted the move to what he calls \u201cparadise\u201d; a beautiful seaside city laced with infectious hypergrowth energy. Among the sorts of people are engineers, creatives, and all different types of interesting people, as you would imagine coming from the birthplace of the internet. Semiconductors. Radio. You name it.<\/span><\/p>\n Bob\u2019s entrepreneurial journey, through a series of what he calls \u201cserendipitous events\u201d, results in him establishing both a consulting and software business in a field he practically invented: software forensics. Software forensics is the analysis of a company\u2019s code in an attempt to determine whether it\u2019s been copied from another company\u2019s code.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIronically, most of the things I\u2019ve planned didn\u2019t end up working out. It was the unplanned ones that did,\u201d Bob comments.<\/span><\/p>\n There was beauty in algorithms and systematic processes that Bob saw, which could demystify this industry. What was immediately alerting was his passion and curiosity for solving problems and seeking the truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bob published a paper publicly, which you can find <\/span>here<\/b><\/a> in an effort to debunk the rumor that Microsoft copied the CP\/M from Digital Research to make the MS-DOS. Most of his accomplishments he couldn\u2019t explicitly advertise because they were held in the courtroom. Besides, billions of dollars were at stake. He was eager to find a public project to which he could apply his analysis, and make sense of it to the common person. The big controversy throughout the eighties pertained to whether \u201cBill Gates built his multi-billion empire off of stolen code.\u201d Zeidman concluded \u201cthat was indeed not the case. But that didn\u2019t ring a popular bell with the magazines or people in general. People rather the rumor be true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Iron-clad in his conclusions, the scientist in him couldn\u2019t resist putting out a public challenge, offering $100,000 if someone could prove his conclusions wrong. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you there are people out there that strongly disagree with me; that\u2019s why I offered the $100,000 prize. I put the word out there that if you could prove me wrong I\u2019ll gladly give you the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n To this day, despite the number of naysayers online, no one has successfully come forward for the challenge. To which degree where his confidence came from\u2014 Zeidman is meticulous when it comes to his craft. His algorithms have stood up to the test of time in court (over two decades), and even with billions of dollars at stake, no one has ever successfully challenged his findings in court. The infamous <\/span>ConnectU vs Facebook<\/span><\/a> case most widely known from the movie \u201cThe Social Network\u201d happened to be one of Bob\u2019s first cases. \u201cThe one thing that I proved was that Mark Zuckerburg did not copy any code. I couldn\u2019t release the findings for five years. I couldn\u2019t promote myself for five years after the case ended,\u201d Zeidman comments, \u201cbecause of commitments I made to secrecy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n For four decades, Zeidman operated quietly out of the Silicon Valley, building several patented software technologies for tech litigation as well as running a full-scale consulting service. He\u2019s authored four books, <\/span>The Software IP Detective’s Handbook<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Verilog Designer’s Library<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Introduction to Verilog<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n