Monday, February 9, 2009
The “Billionaires’ Dinner” at TED: Readjusted for the 2009 Econalyspe
Many years ago in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom, when working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, BoomTown redubbed an annual dinner that book agent John Brockman threw at the TED conference.
It was jokingly called the “Millionaires’ Dinner,” but I renamed it the “Billionaires’ Dinner.”
That was due to the frothy fortunes that had been made at the time by the Internet pioneers, from Amazon to AOL to eBay. Get it?!?
Well, despite the economic meltdown, there were still a lot of billionaires in attendance at Brockman’s most recent dinner last Thursday in Long Beach. But he recounted to me that the proceedings were a lot more focused on the serious times we are in, as was the whole digerati-packed conference held last week.
