Lunch 2.0 at Google
Location: Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Date: Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Call Mark at 425.830.7588 when you get there
You’ll need to arrange a Google buddy to get you in (for those that don’t have Google buddies, find one! They’ve got thousands of employees, it can’t be that hard
). We’re heading over there at 11:45 - we hear parking is not so good nowadays.
Hope to see ya there!
February 28th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
[...] We’ve got Lunch 2.0 lined up for 3 days in a row this week. Wednesday at Google, Thursday at Plaxo, and Friday at SimplyHired. [...]
March 2nd, 2006 at 1:49 pm
[...] Just got back from Lunch 2.0 at the Googolplex and it was quite tasty. We went to the relatively new Pacific Cafe and had us some good sushi, noodles, and thai ice tea. Take a look at some pictures I snapped. [...]
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:47 am
[...] So initially, we just started doing this ourselves, e.g. “hey, you know so-and-so at Yahoo, can we go meet him for lunch next week?” or “my friend has this new startup and they just got an office, let’s go see them”. We thought others would be interested to see what we had seen, so we took photos and posted them online (in the process, coining “lunch 2.0” since we needed a name for the site, and it felt like a web-2.0 approach to the problem of meeting people). We also blogged upcoming events, but mainly just as an alternative for managing a mailing list of our few friends that wanted to come to these events. As we told our friends what we were doing, more and more wanted to come too, so we just pointed them to the blog, not thinking much of it. [...]