Rollcall
Over the past few months I have been networking my way to what hopes to be a job or a combination of positions very soon. I have been incredibly fortunate to meet leaders in the tech industry and wanted to list them here to show that people are actually pretty nice and that if you are friendly enough they are generally happy to talk with you. Sometimes, it’s just a phone call, sometimes it’s lunch, every so often is an interview, but no matter what every minute of their time is worth a whole lot.
It helps if you are associated with connectors. Most people on this list I have been introduced to by Andrew Warner or Daniel Paul, I definitely owe them this shout out.
Per some recommendations from some of the individuals below, I’ve taught myself a little bit of HTML. This list was created using what I learned, and was typed completely in the HTML not visual editor on Wordpress. It took longer but I think it was worth it for the adventure.
List of high level people who were nice enough to give me some time:
- Josh Spector – Director of Content at Comedy.com
- Mike Jones – CEO of Tsavo Media (among many other accomplishments)
- Sean Percival – Director of Content at Tsavo Media (and other sites including LALAWAG)
- Drew Baldwin – Co-Founder of Tubefilter
- Marc Hustvedt – Co-Founder of Tubefilter
- Mark Jeffrey – CTO of Mahalo
- Tyler Crowley – Director of Business Development, Marketing, and Strategy of Mahalo
- Eric Stephens – Director of Product and User Experience at Mahalo
- Mark Geller – Product Manager of Photos at Google
- Jun Loayza – Co-Founder of Viraology
- Yu-kai Chou – Co-Founder of Viraology
- Neil Patel – SEO Expert and Founder of QuickSprout
- Don Mosites – Founder of Streamy
- KW Low – Director of Business Development and Strategy at AT&T Interactive (Yellowpages)
- William Barnes – Founder of WPB Group (and Geeky T-shirt extraordinaire)
- Shira Lazar – Tech Reporter and Ultimate Connector who blogs at The Pop Report
- Stefan Goldby – Producer at Chemistry Productions (and former VP at ManiaTV)
- Hayden Black – Executive Producer of Goodnight Burbank (and on-line video power player)
- Mike Prasad – Developer of Koji BBQ’s Twitter and GirlGamer
- Yaron Tilajef – Director of Sales at (mt) MediaTemple
- The crew at Eblizz
- Every C level person at AFI
- And a few other people I’m sure I’m forgetting
Well that’s the end of this post and my HTML experiment. Let’s hope all the href=”" links work 
