DFJ CEO Summit
I brought home some hardware from this year’s DFJ CEO Summit in Half Moon Bay. Over 125 CEOs from all of the DFJ portfolios were in attendance, including our new friends at Loongstore from DFJ China who plan to give Hadoop a run for their money. The conference started with an impassioned speech by DFJ’s fearless leader, Tim Draper. He encouraged us to ask people stuff, don’t run out of money, eliminate human friction, focus, solve a big problem, have fun and partner whenever possible. Most importantly he reminded each of us in the room to remember that we are a meme and to lead by example. We also learned that “over time things move towards commoditization” from the Director of AWS, that “it’s all about the follow” from the VP Business and Corporate Development of Twitter, and that “there will be 53 zettabytes of data on the web by 2020” from the Director of New Business Development of Google. It was a first class event in every way and was another reminder of the value bringing in the right venture partner adds to a startup. Thanks DFJ!
