I wanted to reflect on a few of those fun things, places, people and memories that entered my life this year this year. With no hesitation I present my year in cities and celebrities:
Cities
- Boulder, CO (moved from here)
- Denver, CO (to here)
- San Francisco, CA (CommunityNext, birthday)
- Bay Area, CA (San Jose, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Jelly Belly Factory)
- Beijing, China (Spring Break, Great Wall, Forbidden City)
- Shanghai, China (Incubator visit, Ex-pat panels, Pearl Tower)
- Suzhou, China (tea garden)
- Los Angeles, CA (training, bull riding, Manhattan/Venice/Huntington Beaches, Dodgers)
- Cleveland, OH (more training, more bull riding, tequila, Indians)
- Santa Fe, NM (visiting an old friend, culture)
Celebrities (they’re internet-famous)
- Noah Kagan (the reason I got to meet so many people, awesome guy)
- Ramit Sethi (finance fella, dysentery shirt)
- Penelope Trunk (not quite as crazy as her writing suggests)
- Ben Casnocha (good sushi, wiz kid)
- Andrew Hyde (startupweekend, political webmaster)
- Josh Spear (definition of cool)
- Shel Israel (almost like a grandpa, great stories)
- Tom Conrad (pandora CIO, why I bought sonos)
- Brian Breslin (world-class web guy, webpl.us, infinimedia)
- Jonathan Otto (ottobib)
- David Mandell (me.dium founder)
- Dean Steadman (me.dium community guy, gave me the shirt my girlfriend says is her fave on me)
- socialthing! team (Matt, Brian, Ben, Joel, cool guys)
- EventVue team (Rob and Josh, fun times in CA with guys from CO)
- Dave McClure (500 hats, smart guy with lots to say)
- Dave Feinleib (sharp VC, very flattering, I’ll get into PE some day because of him)
- Andrew Chen (prodigy, advertising/web guru)
- Kareen Mayan (education entrepreneur)
- Daniel Newman (webpreneur, so much going on)
…and so many more people. Some I didn’t even get to meet in person but had the opportunity to work with, talk to or cross paths (Ryan Healy and Ryan Paugh, Jeremy Wright, everyone at 9rules especially Scrivs, Tyme, Mike, seanrox, everyone from Startup Weekend (Micah, Michael, Charlie, John).
Anyway, a good year for new friendships and heres to many more!
dude. you are awesome. totally honored to be on your list of web celebs. are you gonna make it to sxsw? you definitely should. let me know when it gets too cold for you in colorado and you decide to come down to Miami.
It was awesome meeting you too this year. I think we’d known each other online for a couple years before right?
Not sure that I’m really an interweb star, but I’m more than happy to be the one making you look dead sexy in that shirt.
Hey Devin…I never knew I was a celebrity!
Always a pleasure getting together. Come on by whenever you can break free from that 9 to 5 that pays your way these days…we’ve got some new T’s coming in soon. ;)
Thanks Dean!
Brian: Yeah I think we met back in early 2006.
Dean: If you’re all over the me.dium blog you’re obviously a star. ;)
David: In my heart you are!
Bull-riding in LA? Does this mean you were at the Saddle Ranch Chophouse on Sunset? :) Next time you will have to gimme a ring-a-ring-ring and I’ll show you some places. :)
Of course I was, I’ll be back out in LA March 28th so I’ll keep you posted. :)
dear diary,
devin is my bff;-)
A few things…
1. Glad to see you have ONE female on your list. And your right…P’s not as crazy as her writing suggests. She’s a hoot!
2. I’m not a celebrity…yet. So make a note to have my name listed next year.
3. Yeah you’ll be in L.A. on March 28th. As should everyone on this list!
4. hi girlfriend! ;)