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Many years back, I used to work at a very small agency (2 of us), it was a subset of a Hedge Fund thing, I think… something like that. Anyway, I read an article by one of the directors which was titled something like “Hedge Funds are the new rock ‘n roll”. It was mid-dotcom crash and it was about how Hedge Fund managers were the new cool.
I disagreed. I had always seen San Francisco and its entrepreneurs, full of startups and funky companies as, well, not Rock n Roll, but pretty damn cool. Silicon Valley was (and still is) my Mecca.
So, the point of this post? Well, I had the pleasure of seeing Kevin Rose (Digg) and Alex Albrecht filming an episode of Diggnation in London last week. I have never seen guys who really put the funk into being internet entrepreneurs! Their thing is that they sit on a couch (sofa, I know, sofa) and get drunk while discussing stories on Digg.com. Very simple, and something I envy Kevin Rose for coming up with such a great and simple idea. So they bumble through stories usually ending up with anecdotes, arguments, bets, ideas. They tend to manage to offend at least 1 country per episode, in a jokey “we’re American” way. Brilliant, just brilliant, well, fun anyway.
It’s worth having a look, you can subscribe then watch on your ipod, have a go!
Diggnation – Revision 3