Riya’s Launch Party @ TechCrunch
Michael Arrington
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We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was 200ish) at the Riya Launch Party.
The thing I liked best about this party was that Tara Hunt from Riya and Andrea Reinhardt from Just Starting Up took care of everything - Fifty something pizzas, 20 or more cases of beer, wine and champagne, bags and bags of ice, the A/V system for the demo and tons of tshirts and stickers. Tom Conrad from Pandora chipped in with a complete music system.
And it was a great crowd. My pictures from the event are here. Here’s everyone’s tagged “TechcrunchMeetup4“.
The rumors about a Google acquistion were neither confimed nor denied by anyone in the know…but there sure is a lot of buzz around this company right now.
Things I loved about the event:
- Riya rocks and now even more people know about it
- My Dad flew in for the party and saw what this web 2.0 stuff is all about (on left in picture)
- My dog Laguna is still alive
- As far as I know, Dorrian didn’t park in my yard this time
- Lots of cool companies besides Riya came and showed their stuff in the demo room
Things that weren’t as great about the event:
- Fifty something empty pizza boxes and 20 something cases of empty beer and wine bottles scattered around my lawn this morning
- Somebody drank all of my scotch again
- The Atherton police set up a sobriety checkpoint around the corner from my house
- Gabe, Richard, Fred and others were out of town and couldn’t make it
That’s it for parties this year. The next one should be in January or February. I can’t say what it is yet but I will say that it involves a launch party again…this time for a book.
Other mentions of the party (send me an email or trackback to this post):
Jack Arrington
Shel Israel
Robert Scoble
Scott Beale
Jeff Clavier
Joseph di Paolantonio
Clarise Z. Doval Santos
the egoist
Expert Texture
Christian Sepulveda
UPDATE 11/24/05: Enric has a video of Tara’s Riya demo up on his site.
Sounds like it was a great event and cool that your Dad was there. Sounds like Laguna got stuck into the pizzas.
What are those black tee-shirts with the green circle on it about?
Richard, Those are the Riya tshirts they gave to everyone. Black, long sleeve, cool.
Mike,
What a blast and what a pleasure to finally actually meet you in the real world. I don’t have your email, but I wrote about the party here:
http://redcouch.typepad.com/we....._rock.html
I look forward to hearing about this next party you mentioned and hope you are kind enough to invite me.
Shel, Thanks for the comment. It was great to finally meet you as well. You will certainly be invited to the launch party I mentioned.
Michael -
Great party.
But I need to know, are all the rumors about Techcrunch true??
Sounds like a great party. I just posted something to my blog (at http://www.mathewingram.com/work) about how reading about all these great parties makes me feel even farther away from the Web 2.0 action than I already do (I live in Toronto). Oh well. At least I can look at the pictures
Great party, thanks for opening you home to us, was great meeting you. Look forward to the next one!
Hey Michael,
Next time I have a party, I’ll repay you with your own bottle of scotch. Thanks for your generosity and a fab party!
Thank you Chris…but “they” will just drink it all again.
Great party Michael. Thank you for bringing so many bright and talented people together.
And, thanks for the scotch. #-) I’ll sponsor the bottle at the next TechCrunch party.