Kara Visits The Lobby Party on Sand Hill Road (As Opposed to the Sandy Beaches of Hawaii)
by Kara Swisher
Posted on June 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM PT
Last night, BoomTown went to a lovely party thrown by David Hornik, the August Capital VC who also runs The Lobby conference in his spare time.
He threw the event because those who attend the annual invitation-only gathering in Hawaii wanted to get together again during the year in Silicon Valley for even more schmoozing.
I went to the first Lobby in the fall of 2007 (you can see my video of that below too), so Hornik let me in to have some pizza and beer at August’s offices on Sand Hill Road and use my Flip video to ask those in attendance where they thought the digital sector was in terms of the economy and innovation.
So here’s Hornik, angel investor Brett Bullington (who is also in the 2007 video, but in shorts) and BillShrink’s Peter Pham, as well a merger of MINIs.
Here’s the video (with my 2007 one below it):
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Hard-hitting journalism.
KARA: What’s the mood in Silicon Valley?
INVESTOR/ENTREPRENEUR: Well ..
KARA [interrrupts]: Is it frothy? It’s really frothy isn’t it?
INVESTOR/ENTREPRENEUR: Ha ha ha. Yes, it’s frothy.
KARA: What are you excited about?
INVESTOR/ENTREPRENEUR: Real-time, real-time, Facebook, Twitter, real-time …
KARA: Thanks!
Posted by Arthur Howe at June 13th, 2009 at 8:19 amA:
Oh, relax. It was a party.
Posted by Kara Swisher at June 14th, 2009 at 1:52 am