Can be done as online gaming events
> - Asking Vinod a question about next-gen registers at Program Synthesis Conference
Can be done using a microphone and camera attached to your device
> - Animated discussion about cpu design over beers post conference in SF
Animated conversations can be done via microphone and video
> - Talking to a startup about IOT management on the roof of an Accel event
Can be done as a vendor breakout with a virtual background of a roof
> - When I was a college student sitting on a folding chair and chatting with a nice woman about the startups pitching at TechCrunch40 (turned out to be M Mayer)
You can always sit in a folding chair and chat with M Mayer in a slack room for the breakout
> - Drew pitching me on Dropbox before launch in Cambridge (boring, I thought)
Drew also has a microphone and camera I bet, but it probably won’t make him less boring
> - Nate pitching me AirBedAndBreakfast in Mountain View (loved the idea from the get go)
Who would ever want to actually go to Mountain View? (N.b., I lived there for many years)
Just a few recent off the top of my head:
- Paddleboard breakouts at East Meets West
- Asking Vinod a question about next-gen registers at Program Synthesis Conference
- Animated discussion about cpu design over beers post conference in SF
- Talking to a startup about IOT management on the roof of an Accel event
And some ones from 10+ years ago:
- When I was a college student sitting on a folding chair and chatting with a nice woman about the startups pitching at TechCrunch40 (turned out to be M Mayer)
- Drew pitching me on Dropbox before launch in Cambridge (boring, I thought)
- Nate pitching me AirBedAndBreakfast in Mountain View (loved the idea from the get go)
The only things that have come close to being memorable online were some recent Teamflow ice breaker type events we did at Our World in Data around the virtual campfire.