A bunch of the old crew met up tonight at Blue Chalk in Palo Alto and three hours passed for me like 20 minutes. I really enjoyed seeing so many people I enjoyed working with for the first time in a long time. Also terrific to find out how well many of them are doing with careers (I was about the only person unemployed), with family and kids.
Peter Yared, who recently founded ActiveGrid, is the only other person with a blog. Several other ex-ND folks have founded companies as well: Zack Rinat, Olivia Dillon and Yarden Malka co-founded ModelN; Diana Jovin, Dave Brewster and Todd Greene started CascadeWorks, which they sold to Elance, and Diana and Dave produced a very cute little daughter (they got married before she left Sun); Doron Sherman was very active, co-founding Collaxa and selling it to Oracle and more recently starting UAppoint; Ofer Ben Shachar founded Noosh (he’s still Chairman) and is in the early days of a venture that’s taking a very innovative approach to search technology; and, Jim DiSanto is Chairman and CEO at KonaWare (not sure if he was a founder, but he has been in at the start of several other companies). I probably have missed a couple, and there are definitely a couple of projects in the works from others.
But the most part is that I had a fun night out–and someone else paid the tab! Big thanks to Maureen Dubois very organizing the party.
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