Alex Le’s Blog

After a much delayed (4 terminal changes, 5 hours waiting from 5pm to 10pm, and 150 page through the Pragmatic Ruby on Rails book… more on the Ruby on Rails stuff later) flight from Chicago due to foggy condition, I arrived in San Jose around 12:40am.

It’s now 8:15am Saturday and I’m about to leave for Stanford University for the StartUp School. Rich White from SlimTimer.com will probably join me after SS ends (I just sent him an email after I got to San Jose). If things go smoothly, which it should, we will then head to the Supper Happy Dev House (http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse16) for some additional fun.

It is quite a trip and I only have 1 day to do it all. It’s gonna be FUN, eye-opening fun. And I do feel like I almost need a laptop now (good old remote desktop + logmein are all I need so far and that conbination has been able to pay my bills quite well, so why bother with a laptop)

Here is the schedule of Startup School from their website. I seriously look forward to the speech of Max Levchin, the founder of PayPal. Don’t know what to expect from Paul Graham’s talk because I’ve read most of his essays already. Still, the oppurtunity to meet with these Web 2.0 “celebrities”, for me at this moment, is invaluable.

9:00 Mark Macenka
Partner, Goodwin Procter

9:30 Paul Buchheit
Creator of GMail

10:00 Chris Anderson
Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine

10:30 Paul Graham Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb

11:00 Break

11:15 Michael Mandel
Chief Economist, BusinessWeek

11:45 Max Levchin
Founder, Slide; Founder, PayPal

12:15 Ali Partovi
Founder, iLike; CEO, GarageBand.com; Founder, LinkExchange
Hadi Partovi
President, iLike; GM, MSN.com; Founder, Tellme

12:45 Lunch

2:00 Rahoul Seth
CFO, Adteractive

2:30 Mitch Kapor
President, Open Source Applications Foundation; Founder, Lotus

3:30 Break

3:45 Greg McAdoo
Partner, Sequoia Capital

4:15 Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Facebook

4:45 Joel Lehrer
Associate, Goodwin Procter

5:15 Recent Founders Panel