To: Integrum
From: Chris
Subject: Late
My neighbor accidentally ran over a cat. She came to my door crying. She took me to the cat. Now I have a cat in a box. Isn’t life weird? Sometimes u find yourself driving around with a dead kitty in your trunk. I feel like a kita gangsta. I have to figure out a way to dispose of it. See you soon.
Lindsay and I attended the first Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner in San Francisco on January 31st. It was a fabulous party sponsored by Google & my first time to see the Google campus. I was impressed with the kindness and openness that I experienced by all the women I met. The networking spirit in San Francisco is absolutely amazing. The panel was engaging and all the speakers did a fantastic job.
The tent in the courtyard at Google. We were wined and dined here. There was even video feed from the lecture space!
Katherine Barr, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, moderated the panel of women. Panelists were Leah Culver, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Pownce, Sumaya Kazi, Sun Microsystem’s Social Media Manager and serial entrepreneur by age 25, Irene Au, Google’s Director of User Experience, and Rashmi Sinha, CEO of SlideShare.
We met Angie Chang, the organizer of the dinner. She is a super woman!
It was an awesome coincidence that after the panel we met Arena Reed, a designer at Pivotal Labs. We got talking about our companies, which are very similar, and she invited us to their office the next day. It was a great visit where we learned a lot. I was so impressed with how helpful and transparent the team was. Their desire to help others be successful in Agile practices was evident by their wiliness to talk with us and answer our questions.
We finished up the trip with a little sightseeing since it’s not every day we find ourselves in San Francisco.