Source:Valleywag
Persistent rumors are burning my ears about last week’s Thrillist SF launch party. The events newsletter reportedly attracted a very special guest — one who probably should have been burning the midnight oil in Palo Alto dealing with a company crisis. We hear he stayed up late drinking, ending up passed out on a couch, while his girlfriend lit up with friends. Were you there? Drop me a line.
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Source:Valleywag
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kept an online journal during college. Part of it has become publicly available thanks to 02138’s recent reporting on the ConnectU case. In this portion of the diary we witness the moment of Zuckerberg’s inspiration for Facebook, the social network with 57 million active users and a bubbly valuation of $15 billion. This is, most likely, the kind of thing Facebook wanted to quash with its ill-thought-out lawsuit:
[Redacted] is a bitch. I need to think of something to make to take my mind off her.
I need to think of something to occupy my mind. Easy enough now I just need an idea.
The idea, of course, was hacking into school servers to pull private photos onto a website — a project which eventually turned into Facebook. We’re sure the freshly matured Zuckerberg doesn’t talk, write or think about people like this anymore. No way. All he thinks about are his users and their privacy.
But here’s what we want to know, Harvard graduates of the Valley and beyond. Who was she? And what did she do to Zuckerberg? Tell us the tale.
Source:Valleywag
Silicon Alley Insider decided to revive one of Jason Calacanis’s oldest traditions and produce a Silicon Alley 100. In doing so, the blog run by disgraced tech stock analyst Henry Blodget just proves the thoroughgoing irrelevance of the exercise. The editors’ No. 1 man in New York? Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Some other highlights among the old, the rich and the boring? AOL topper Randy Falco, IAC’s Barry Diller and Jupitermedia’s Alan Meckler. The closest SAI comes to someone we care about is VC blogger Fred Wilson — a moneyman, not an entrepreneur. As in Calacanis’s time, New York is where ideas come to be financed, repackaged, and marketed — not invented.
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