Polling the community: Should I attend?<p>I've watched videos of past events, and they seem to follow the TED model of being amusing and inspirational but not particularly informative; I'm too cynical to be interested in "inspirational". On the other hand, I get the feeling that the hallway track might be good.
I think if your in the area or you know tons of people going; it might be worth going. I would't go out of my way to attend.<p>I went to the one in NYC few years back and it was not a good experience for me. I traveled from Boston and was super excited. Just a big let down.<p>PG was like a celebrity their. Impossible to get in anything with him. Same with other famous founders. Basically everyone was just circling and try to figure out who to talk to next. Was super awkward.<p>My takeaways from NYC:<p>1.) PG looks exactly like his pics and acts the same. It pretty hard to get to talk to him (due to all the people clamoring for his attention).<p>2.) Some famous YC alum are stuck up. Never met anyone as stuck up as the non-technical reddit co-founder.<p>3.) Justin Kan is the nicest person. Pure respect for him.<p>4.) In NYC at least hordes of MBA trolling looking for "technical cofounders". Met a really rude person who actually introduced himself as having an MBA from Harvard.<p>San Francisco might be different.
The lineup looks pretty good so far: Ron Conway, Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Danae Ringelmann (Indiegogo), Emmett Shear (Twitch).<p>Anyone know who else they might be bringing in? Does Zuckerberg do it every year?