You've just been LunchedIn!
The past few months saw us reach a few milestones at LinkedIn and we felt that Lunch 2.0 would be a great opportunity to meet a wide cross section of our users who made that possible. Today that wish came true, when we welcomed over 200 professionals from the Bay Area, into our new digs in Mountain View.
The lunch started off promptly at noon with a steady stream of guests arrive and snake their way through our stairway into the cafeteria. Familiar faces in the crowd, included Guy Kawasaki, Rob Hof, Jeremiah Owyang, Gabe Rivera, Justin Kan, the bub.blicio.us crew, Jeremy Pepper, Shel Israel, Chris Heuer, Daniela Barbosa, Robyn Tippins and many others. Stay tuned for pictures and videos created at the event.
During lunch we recognized the founders of Lunch 2.0, who seem to have inadvertently stumbled upon Silicon Valley's best kept secret - free lunches! Of course, we gifted them LinkedIn lunch boxes and special commemorative red Swingline staplers, made famous by the movie "Office Space". We then heard Allen Blue, one of our co-founders, outline LinkedIn's vision. This seemed all the more appropriate, given our recent string of milestones traversed.
We also injected some fun and games into the atmosphere by setting the stage for two of our favorite office games: 4-square and tennis on the Nintendo Wii! It was great to see many Bay Area professionals having fun in the middle of a busy work-day, play tennis and bowling on the Nintendo Wii console as well as a bunch of others play 4-square in our recently created four-square court.
Thanks to everyone who attended the event for taking time off their busy
schedule for some fun, games and lunch. For those
of you who missed it, there's always another Lunch 2.0, with one
hosted by Netgear coming up in just a week.
Check out our photo archive for updated images from Lunch 2.0
Quick Update: Here are related blog and media posts on our Lunch 2.0
Lunch 2.0: free food, a side of tech talk cafetaria crashers now invited guests (San Francisco Chronicle)
LinkedIn says lets do Lunch 2.0 (bub.blicio.us video interviews with Guy Kawasaki and CEO Dan Nye)
Lunch 2.0 at LinkedIn was incredible (Web Strategy Blog with video)
When LinkedIn met Lunch 2.0 (Marketing Nirvana)
Justin meets Audrey Tautou (Justin.tv)
Lunch 2.0 on Chronicle's front page (David Kellogg)
Plaxo gets LunchedIn (Plaxo Blog)
4 Square is hot in the Silicon Valley (virtualomni blog)
Lunch 2.0 in the SF Chronicle today (Mark Jen)
My first Lunch 2.0 event (just another digirati wannabe blog)
Lunch 2.0 at LinkedIn (Adam Nash)
LunchedIn 2.0 - what a party! (Official Lunch 2.0 blog)
Lunch 2.0 has been chronicled (Joseph Smarr)
For those of you who took pictures at the event, please tag them on any public photo sharing site with the following tags: "lunch20" and "linkedin"
Neil Blecherman May 24, 2007
thanks for the lunch and the opportunity to see old friends and make some new ones. I haven't played 4-square since third grade!
Robyn Tippins May 24, 2007
Mario, thanks for the mention. I think Lunch 2.0 went really well, and I had a great time as well. So great to finally meet you!
Heather Forsythe May 24, 2007
Thank you, Mario, Kay, and the rest of the LinkedIn crew for putting on such a terrific event yesterday. It was great to finally meet you all.
And I was very impressed – though not surprised – that Allen stayed and talked to EVERYone who wanted to talk with him. He was truly interested in hearing what people had to say. And I was glad to hear that most of my product suggestions are already ‘in the works’.
You really have a terrific team (but we knew that already)...
sabu mangalasserril May 25, 2007
gr88 going folks....
Chris Heuer May 29, 2007
Hi Mario - thanks for hosting Lunch 2.0 this month - it was a great time. Finally got my photos put together which you can see here... http://urltea.com/nie
daniela barbosa May 29, 2007
Mario- great Lunch 2.0 event as expected! Looking forward to seeing some great things out of you folks!
Mario Sundar May 31, 2007
Hi guys,
Thanks to all of you for making Lunch 2.0 @ LinkedIn the HUGE success it was.
Mario
Steven Burda May 31, 2007
Thank you.
burda.mba @gmail.com
govokinolij Jul 10, 2007
Hi all!
Looks good! Very useful, good stuff. Good resources here. Thanks much!
G'night