Ahmad’s Muse

Posted by ahmadster at November 26th, 2006

Finally, an even better office this time. We got the whole 4th floor at the 200 Mill Ave. South building (the old Renton Municipal building) next to I-405.

That is literaly 7 minutes away from from my house. The funny thing is I didn’t plan it that way, it just happened.

I’m not totally comfortable yet (until I get a Seltzer vending machine installed that is), but I did get my new setup,… set up

This is the view from he conference room, yes those are airplane fuselages passing by on a train next to the I-405 highway. The only thing missing is a yacht and a space shuttle.

Did I mention we are in Renton, where Boeing is. So the next time you are flying in the air, remember me, that airplane passed by my office

Posted by ahmadster at November 12th, 2006

That was way cool!
I met a ton of neat people, everyone was showing off their cool stuff. But generally I loved meeting some key industry folks. On with the show…

As usual we start off with a close up of Greg Ruff of White Space Strategy. He’s basically the real highlight of every SF trip.

Our panel had the best speaker makeup of all time, from the left, that would be Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn), next is Danny Kolke (La CEO + Jazz Man), Richard McAniff (Corporate Vice President for Microsoft® Office), Dave Ferguson (Engineering Director at Google), Raju Vegesna (Evangelist at Zoho).

It did get very crowded, the Adobe folks were awesome!

That is John Battelle (Federated Media) at the first night dinner. We barely had anytime to talk as he was being hounded by everyone, but I did get a chance to introduce him to Lara Hanson (I’ll explain in a later post). The lady next to him was introducing Hakia.

The first night, we hosted a Jazz Lounge (Yahoo had an Oxygen Bar, show offs!). We hired a couple of backups for Danny and he was off hammering the piano all night.

This dude I’m going to name “Rumpelstiltskin”. He is a VC scout as far as I can tell, very nice dude but would not give me any info about him. All I know is that he is out looking for cool tech, he spent the whole night at our lounge, so I guess we made the cut.

Did I mention that Danny really hammered the piano? He didn’t use a hammer, that is his blood on the piano. He was playing so hard his finger tips started to bleed, and no he didn’t stop. Insane dude…

When I first met Cal Evans (of Zend, the folks who bring you PHP) I looked at him and said Thank You. We had dinner the next day and it was nice having him around as real developers knew what he was really about.

The last day we went out for a trip around SF, it was wonderful weather that day, I enjoyed it. The next Web 2.0 Expo will be in New York on January. I doubt it will be as good as this, but we shall see.