More stories than you can shake a stick at--part 879: Two decades of the Churchill Club --[published as an hourly series as an experiment.]
Thursday evening I'm in Palo Alto at a small Spago gathering to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Churchill Club. I meet Julie Crabill, Christie Valdez, and their colleagues, who organize and publicize a very busy conference program that runs all year long.
For those unfamiliar with this very familiar Silicon Valley institution, here is its genesis, in its own words: http://www.churchillclub.org/aboutClubHistory.jsp
The Club was founded by Rich Karlgaard, now publisher of Forbes magazine, and Tony Perkins, now Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring Communications. Together, Tony, Rich, and a group of friends from the Ed Zschau senate campaign, built an organization dedicated to producing programs where "important people say important things".
It was great to see some of the Silicon Valley hackpack, such as Quentin Hardy of Forbes (twice in one week) and Michael Kanellos, one of Cnet's top editorial brands.
I will spare you the name of the journalist, for fear of embarrasment, who said a lovely thing to me, he said "I just added your rss feed." In today's society, and in that group, that is indeed a compliment.
Next up at 8.08 am--Churchill Club 20th anniversary event:How Raymond Nasr's mother found out he was leaving Google...
