Meeting Joel Spolsky

Noted author Joel Spolsky (”Joel on Software“) mentioned this in his blog entry from October 16th:

Visiting Cambridge (Massachusetts [USA]) for a party at Y-combinator made me jealous about how much more vibrant the hacker/startup scene is in the Boston area than it is in the New York area. [...] Is New York just lame compared to Boston? [... M]aybe it’s because investment banks, hedge funds, advertising agencies, and media companies suck up all the oxygen? One bright young Harvard grad I met at the party has a job as the full-time, personal system administrator maintaining the PC of a famous hedge fund manager …

I just realized, I was part of that conversation. They were talking about this hedge fund dude, and I didn’t know who he was, and didn’t care, so I left the conversation and went to another. (I got to meet Joel Spolsky but he was talking about hedge funds?!)

More to come about Startup School, I promise!