Naked Truth party was a success!
Last night we all had a blast at the Naked Truth party.
Leaving work at 5pm was kind of surreal (though I do normally skip out at 4:30 on Tuesdays for sailing). In fact we got stuck in traffic because none of us anticipated that there would be any. After arguing about whether we should pay for parking Jeff, one of our VCs and myself got turned away at the door because we weren’t on the right RSVP list. Thankfully after chastising us Angela sorted that out!
Once in the Havana parking lot it was journalists arguing with journalists, lots of food, tequila shots with Zillow, bumping into friends at Microsoft looking to leave, trying to sweet talk potential recruits and lots of ribs.
Zillow and Redfin partied late into the night and while not completely hungover, I’m certainly not 100%!
Something interesting that Alex pointed out was that there was a surprising lack of young entrepreneurs. Most were people in there 30s and 40s. Besides our interns there were no college kids and besides the Zillow and Redfin employees very few people in their 20s. Where are the young entrepreneurs in Seattle hanging out? Or do we not have any because they’re all at Stanford/Berkeley and hanging out in the Bay Area?
July 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Matt-
Great meeting you last night - was certainly a good time. I must say, I wasn’t quite 100% today either due to those tequilla shots….
Thanks again to the Redfin team for sponsoring the event!
July 26th, 2007 at 12:35 am
I was just going to subscribe to your blog, but dude - where is a link to your RSS feed??
ahh…it’s in the footer. I’d suggest putting a link in the sidebar - maybe I’m the minority, but I never look at the footer when looking for a rss feed.
August 1st, 2007 at 3:33 am
Matt,
I had the same observation. Seattle start up world is fed by Msft, Amzn, Expedia escapees :) It was great to meet you!