Digg Mixer Conversations
Digg put on a mixer last night in San Francisco for some CEOs and Heads of BD. The event was organized by my friend Matt Van Horn, who did a fantastic job of bringing together an amazing collection of folks from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Dow Jones, Twitter, Linkedin, Motorola, and Docstoc. (so proud of your progress Matt)
The event, which was planned weeks ago, ironically fell on the same day as digg’s funding press release. You can see the embed to the press release below.
I had so many great conversations, and wanted to share a few here.
Raanan Bar Cohen of WordPress told me how he’s running a team of 40 people all over the world remotely and how they do 20-30 code releases A DAY!!! (Alon, we have a lot of catching up to do)
Jay Adelson of Digg joked about VCs who may have been wearing jeans for the first time to meetings with Web 2.0 companies
Richard Jalichandra of Technorati is a badass, incredibly smart and thoughtful fellow and may be my CEO idol of the week
Oren Katzeff of Demand Media and Cracked was just stoked that there was another straggler from Los Angeles (hello new Santa Monica neighbor)
Kevin Rose of Digg was as humble and “ah sucks” welcoming as he always is
Kate Thorp of RealGirlsMedia eats a LOT of In&Out
Norman Liang of Photobucket misses Peter Pham (you can’t have him back, he’s ours now)
Damon Berger of Revision3 tried to set me up with one of the waitresses (i generally never trust flirting when it comes before a tip)
Cathy Brooks of Seesmic works for Seesmic, who knew? (you always make me laugh, even when I disagree with your Lindsay Lohan girl on girl philosophy)
Debbie Landa of DealmakerMedia was not at the event, but I am going to give her MAJOR shit if she does NOT take my idea for her video and do an 80’s Jane Fonda work out spoof
Trip Adler of Scribd and I always joke about what people think of seeing us hanging together at mixers, and sincerely compliment each other while we simultaneously try and pump each other for info
Ryan Cunningham of Jumpcut said he liked docstoc so he is my new best friend for life
Freddy Mini of NetVibes has a cool French Accent. I wanted to try and imitate him, for him, and thankfully had the good sense not to
MC Hammer of, well, MC Hammer had a great idea about improving voter participation in national elections. ”Make it a mandatory leave day for employees, and when you bring proof of voting, to your employer it won’t count as a sick day”
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September 25th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Kevin Rose of Digg was as humble and “ah sucks” nice and welcoming as he always is.
May want to edit that.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Travis thanks for the heads up, I edited it a bit, it’s pretty late