Most likely a bargain in comparison to the lunch with Warren Buffett that recently went for a whopping $2.63 million.
Though that $2.63 million sure did include a ton of exposure (including your comment now!).
Let's Do Lunch
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#42Can someone in the area be my proxy and bid for me?
sounds like a lot of people are interested in this but can't be there to bid. perhaps pg could setup a second lunch for online bidders, do a reverse auction and donate all the bids.
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#43Seems kind of ... hrm ... odd to propose it as a chat about your startup. I think it'd be fun to do lunch with PG, but would much rather range over a wider group of topics - life in Italy, fatherhood, tech trends, languages, politics (hate seeing it on this site, but like everyone, I'm interested in it), and this that and the other thing.
I'd be happy to talk about random topics, but it would seem presumptuous to offer that as an auction item.
On the other hand, if I had a good proposition for a startup and team, you'd pay me to fly there and talk about it for a few minutes, and then potentially give me money to work on it!
Also, in terms of startups, I have a suspicion that the most interesting knowledge in pg's head has to do with the aggregate data from YC: trends, what works, what doesn't, what makes money, that sort of thing. That's what I'd focus on in terms of startups.
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#44I'm waiting for a Cougar to win it.
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#45Microtrend?
Our Kickstarter project also arranges coffees with VCs/angels for a donation to a nonprofit. And you can bid online. Deadline: end of day Saturday, Nov. Sixth.
http://pageturnerfest.org/kickstarter/vcs
Donate $500 to the Asian American Writers' Workshop literary festival and you can snatch coffees with:
- Patrick Chung, partner at NEA and co-lead of its consumer investing practice.
- Harj Taggar, partner at Y Combinator.
- Puneet Agarwal, of True Ventures, a $195 million fund that focuses earliest stages in the highest-growth segments of the technology market.
- Andrew Chung, principal at Lightspeed Venture Partners, who covers the cleantech, Internet and software sectors.
- James Cham, principal at Trinity Ventures, who covers consumer services, social media and digital media.
- Richard de Silva, general partner at Highland Capital Partners, who is focused on digital media investments with specific interest in online advertising, online media properties, consumer payment systems and internet infrastructure. [SOLD OUT]
- David Lee, partner at SV Angel with Ron Conway, who focuses on investments within the consumer Internet, mobile, video and other IT industries. [SOLD OUT]
Direct to our Kickstarter project: http://aaww.org/kickstarter
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#46pg, are you ready for the possible "Why didn't you pick me for yc?! (sob)" awkward lunch?
I think the most beneficial thing would to be blunt with a person, tell them exactly where you think they have gone wrong. They may disagree but in the end pg is the one with the yc program to offer and gets to make the call, rightly or wrongly in heinsight who makes the cut.
I don't think tiptoeing around it really helps either side.
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#47a school at stanford and they lack technology? perhaps someone should quickly build an ipad app to put on the table at the auction. onsite folks can bid on the ipad, and folks at home can bid via browser. take twitter id so all bids are tweeted to drive even more bidders. perhaps the basis for a yc startup...
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#48This is well timed, to be honest part of me wants to go there and bid just to ask Paul Graham why we didn't get into YCombinator. But, we are in NYC :)