PhotoBlog: Silicon Valley elite swarms to the Techcrunch 9 Party

Categories: Events, Web IndustryPosted on July 28th, 2007

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Many of the tech elite swarmed at this social and product demo in the epicenter of Silicon Valley. Yes, it’s another Techcrunch party (I’ve been to a handful of others). The event was live streamed by Ustream, Justin TV, and video blogging service Kyte was there. There were hundreds of digital cameras taking pictures, a handful of videobloggers, podcasters, and bloggers. I’m going to go to pictures (I only have a small $300 Canon) which to me tells a better story.

Look for other photos from Dan Farber, Thomas Hawk, Lane Hartwell, Scott Beale.

Social observation by Thor: It was interesting to see how folks would look at nametags before folks faces, perhaps some criteria to determine if a conversation would be worthwhile? Imagine the party with no name tags, would that change the social dynamics?

Folks on the Ustream channel said “Thank god Jeremiah is not wearing the corporate blues”, lots of folks were wearing the traditional Silicon Valley Blue Shirt and Khakis. Allen Stern did a great job of writing down what he saw from the streaming video. Jeremy Wright was on the stream as well.

Update: TechCrunch has a wrap-up post.

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Interesting - the ratio of female to male faces in these pictures seems higher than in the bylines of text posts coming out of Silicon Valley. Is that just my imagination, or is that just your selection of photo subjects?

Posted by Dennis D. McDonald on July 28th, 2007 at 7:07 am

Yup, I picked the photos that would be the most interesting.

There was certainly FAR more men than women. The interesting thing? Many told me that most of the women were very attractive, far more than at other events.

C’mon Dennis, whatcha going to click on? I’m no dummy…

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 28th, 2007 at 7:57 am

Part 2: I boiled down these 30 or so photos from the 200 I took last night.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 28th, 2007 at 7:58 am

Hey, I’m with you, Jeremiah! (”Citizen journalism” indeed!)

Posted by Dennis McDonald on July 28th, 2007 at 8:07 am

At BlogHer instead - prolly a more diverse and better mix of people.

Posted by Jeremy Pepper on July 28th, 2007 at 9:09 am

Jeremy

I texted you, did you get it?

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 28th, 2007 at 10:02 am

Reports on the ustream were 40:1 men. Kyte.tv appeared worthless to me - some random snapshots and a lame chat.

I think you and Joanne did a good job on the camera.

Seems like the same blue shirt crowd at everyone of these events - except this time the talk was facebook not myspace?

Good point on the nametags, it is interesting how many people only want to talk to the A-list. Silly.

David Stern was great - he seems like the type of guy I could sit and talk to for days and never be bored.

You make an interesting comment about the “tech elite”.

Posted by Allen Stern on July 28th, 2007 at 11:16 am

Still can’t believe I chose to sit on Ustream chatting instead of going to see a movie

Posted by Jeremy Wright on July 28th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

Jeremy - admit it - it’s cuz I was on the chat!

Posted by allen stern on July 28th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

Silicon Valley Elite? Way to toot your own horn. The silicon valley elite are the execs at the big blue chip silicon valley companies, of which none were on the guest list. This list is by and large the fringe or the middle managers of said companies.

Posted by Horace Wilkins on July 28th, 2007 at 3:45 pm

Horace

There’s two worlds in Silicon Valley. The corporations and the startups.

This was clearly the startups.

I should have been more clear.

And for the record, I’m not in the elite.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 28th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

I saw a few big company execs at the party.

Posted by Robert Scoble on July 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

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This was my first TechCrunch party…it was a lot of fun, but a bit overwhelming.

I can definitely understand the nametag-watchers–I don’t look because I only want to talk with A-listers; I look because I need context for the conversation.

An interesting fact: I met a couple of my investors for the first time yesterday at the party. I only knew who they were by their nametag.

If you want to meet the “elite” of the Valley establishment, pony up $250 and attend the SDForum Visionary Awards. As an SDForum SIG chair, I get an invitation to attend every year. The first year I went, I sat next to Andy Bechtolsheim on the bus ride up to the event, and spent the time explaining blogging to him.

Thanks again for appearing on Ustream last night, Jeremiah!

Chris Yeh
CEO, Ustream

Posted by Chris Yeh on July 28th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

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Mike did a wrap up post, see the video there’s some girls that said they wanted tech guys for a date.

Not really though. here’s their real response. pretty funny.

http://blog.juliaallison.com/

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 29th, 2007 at 6:03 am

I’m amazed btw, 27,000 new subscriptions to techcrunch since friday.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 29th, 2007 at 6:04 am

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Jeremiah - are you serious that you don’t think you are part of the elite?

Posted by Allen Stern on July 29th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

Oh - and I don’t mean that in a bad way!

Posted by Allen Stern on July 29th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

yeah, im serious.

I’ve frequently said I’m a B-Lister…and proud of it.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 29th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

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