happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. How has the spinout experience from UCI been? Don People there encourage commercializing research, but, that said, UCI in particular and maybe the area around here is not very primed to do tech startups. For today's interview, we connected with George Ruan and Dr. Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr.