Attention all TechCrunch readers in Munich: here’s your chance to meet Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (Hmm, I wonder if he’ll be making some sort of announcement). He will be giving a speech at a closed, invite-only event on Tuesday evening, October 7 at Amiando headquarters. Amiando CEO Felix Haas is offering to give admission to one lucky TechCrunch reader. (That’s right, only one). Explains Haas in an e-mail:
Mark will give a speech to the selected guests about Facebook’s plans for Europe and Germany. After the speeches and an extensive Q&A session with Mark Zuckerberg there will be plenty of time to get-together with Mark at dinner & drink. I want to offer admission for one of your readers.
All you have to do to apply is explain why you want to meet Zuckerberg in comments. The person with the best reason gets a ticket. (Put in your real e-mail address so Felix can contact you in case you win).
Update: The winner is Timo. Everyone else can see Zuck speak publicly on October 8 in Munich here.
I want to see what he thinks about the foolishness of our politicians guaranteeing any bad bet that moves.
What happened to the box.net “giveaway”? The competition was very publicized and the prizes have been claimed to be given in secret? How convenient!
I am also curious about that giveaway. Any clues?
http://www.Yocial.com
I want to meet Mark Zuckerberg because I want to ask him how to raise my child to be exactly like him in 20 years.
wooh, thats sad!
I should get to go just for being so damn pretty and smart at the same time. It’s a tough balance that I pull off really well.
But here’s the catch: you’ll have to pay for my plane ticket too. I’m not in Germany, and with the market crash I now have zip to buy a plain ticket.
super smart->money->seems real pretty
LOL @ AL there is also a path of:
looser & dropout->lucky->money->seems real pretty
Wow.. You’re smart and pretty but you can’t afford a plane ticket? With your brains and your looks you can’t earn a cent? Perhaps you’re delusional like some American Idol’s auditionees.
Wow, bit late on the notice? Anyway, good luck to anyone close to Munich.
Hopefully he got in a bit early and was able to enjoy Oktoberfest. //g
It’s great that Mark is in Munich but I wish he would come to the facebook garage in New York City, his home town.
I thought Oktoberfest ended last weekend.
That would be a good reason for a short trip to Munich.
Mostly, however, I want to meet the person that had the clever marketing idea of sending this invite to techcrunch
I am still waiting to see who won the Dell Laptop…
http://www.tech...e-to-give-away/
This is such a great opptunity…
There are many questions I could ask him, for example, about the “new facebook” everyone is ranting about on Facebook groups and how it proves that Facebook groups has no powers at all.
too bad I’m not in Germany… Anyone who get invited… can you ask it for me?
I’d love and be honored to come and contribute a little to the Q&A… being German myself I’ve started a company in the States as well as one in Europe and each of them entered the other market, successfully. Oh and I’m around the corner more or less
I’d like to ask him how he thinks the BCS standings will look like next Sunday.
Hi!
I would love to meet Mark. I have just moved to Munich from Ireland. Bad timing really as he has announced that he is setting up his European hq there. I would like to ask what he loves most about my beautiful isle and then invite him to learn more about Irish tradition on MY social network http://www.diddlyi.com .
I wonder if it will remind him of his startup days
So, I’m in Munich, creating one of Germany’s top tech podcasts.
Germany has got a bad rep for its “copy&paste” web 2.0 culture. Digg is copied by Yigg, Facebook has its own clone, StudiVZ. Why isn’t there any real innovation? I’d love to share my view, and maybe be inspired by Mark.
remove all the “_” for my email: t_i_mo (at) bits_un_d_so.de
I’m the founder of a little startup called stoodl, which is an exchanging platform for self created learning materials by students. We are a little Team of students and I would like to ask Mark, what the most important rules are to be successful in web2.0.
BTW we’re launching stoodl in a few days
Meeting Mark would be a good reason to abort my studies at a top german speaking university and move to the US to found the startup i’ve been thinking about since over a year.
antonyi1@hotmail.com
Nice one Maro, it is great promotion indeed, would have loved to meet him if they were travel costs from within Germany, it simply would be a great birthday present to meet the Zuck, or just listen to him.
Who cares! I like facebook but thats about it…. I dont want to win thanks
Look him in the eye and ask him this: “Did you or did you not rip off someone else’s idea to develop Facebook?”.
I want to meet Mark since I was just in europe and was astounded by the difference in how they use (or don’t use!) social media…cell phone usage is totally different too – very little internet all txting and emailing. As a socnet junky myself, I want to know how does Mark plan to bring social media to Europe with the most efficiency? [oh - and I am jonesing for a good brat with 'kraut]
Give me the ticket, I want to drink Zuckerberg’s milkshake.
i wanna ask him, didn’t your mommy tell you that stealing other people’s things, such as ORIGINAL IDEAS, is wrong?
oh well, i don’t really give a damn about his answer.
He might be in Germany for a legal fight with that clone site.
Anyway, too be honest, I really don’t care meeting him, there are more important
thinks in my life to catch up first.
why in zee heck would i want do meetz mach zookerburgen?
I want to ask him if he believes in the man-bear-pig.
i want to ask him why does his face creep me out so much & what will he do once FB drops from our radar in 2 yrs time and joins altavista in nomans land. Hope He still has his mcdonalds uniform in his wardrobe.
Alta Vista wtf is that?? A housing development
His website might be another web 2.0 buuble but for the haters, this “kid” is infinitely more successful and has made more money in his early twenties than you will in your lifetime.
ok so I would try to make Marc cry. Just for fun. ship the invite
I want to prove to Mark that I am no longer deranged.
And Meet Mark in Paris on Wednesday http://fr.techc...nement-a-paris/
My question would be:
With key facebook people leaving recently – could you envision yourself doing the same and take on the challenge (and fun) of starting a new project / venture from scratch in the future when having an idea that you could not resist.
einjanson@googlemail.de
Haha… I just realized my smurf account mail is einjenson@googlemail.de
And btw – i am not the Jan below (the wannabe pie thrower)
I would like to meet him so that I can give him the bitchslapping he deserves.
Everybody is welcome to Mark Zuckerbergs public speech at LMU Munich at the 8th October 15:45 http://www.new....eid=26842989599
my question is:
why is germany so important to facebook that you’ve even started traditional marketing campaigns in order to get more traction. don’t you think that within the internet the users rather decide about a service (here: social network) based on the pure value-add and user experience.
from my perspective facebook should convince people with great services and innovative concepts instead of suing local competitors with “ridiculous” trial attempts like happened with studivz. it’s all about positive viral and dialogue marketing effects.
I’d love to get the Amiando invite.
I am interested to talk to Mark about Facebook integration into living room platforms. I think there is a big potential to create new social lean-back experiences powered by Facebook.
My background is R&D in Consumer Electronics (US/Japan based) and now for a mobile telecomms (based out of Munich).
I would say: I know an outlet a 100 miles from here, near the Adidas Headquarters, where you can get your beloved “Adiletten” (the Adidas flip flops he wears) at a very special price! Can I drive you to this place and on our way tell you about my ideas on generating new revenue streams with Facebook Connect on company intranets?
I’m going to offer him a position as a developer in the company i’m working for, at the moment i’m the only IT guy (well it’s a startup) and sometimes at work I miss geeks to talk with.
ghiottolino at gmail dot com
I saw him on Monday in Berlin and it was pretty disappointing.
(it was raining)
He delivered a sadly formatted and very corporate speech with wrong informations (about the FARC for instance, where he said that people were released from the FARC thanks to FB, whereas on the slide that he showed us, it was written in Spanish that the FARC used FB to organize its activities. And everyone knows that hostages were released from the FARC thanks to years of international diplomatic work, columbian army intelligence operations and paid ransom to infiltered FARC dissidents). Although he tried to do some jokes (i.e. German trashy style), he avoided in a not very dexterous/subtle way, relevant questions (e.g. Q: why FB is suing StudiVZ? A: because FB wants to work with local players in a friendly manner => Result: audience laughing). Mark Zuckerberg is certainly very smart, but maybe he should not take his audience neither for granted nor for complete idiots.
He was not opened to dialogue when people tried to have a chat with him after the event.
He looked embarassed, which is understable because he is pretty young, has a lot of pressure and is on european tour to promote FB in Europe.
Conclusion: nice to see for historical reasons, but should not be overrated. By the way, he was not wearing his favourite sandals
Isn’t this guy up next for a pie in his face? I’ll do it.
Is this the photo that the 40 yr old virgin got their movie idea from?
We are a Munich based startup doing a mobile social application that links in closely to facebook. Our mobile application updates your location in Facebook and lets you send facebook messages… or should: we’re having some problems integrating with their messaging and I want to ask Mark who we should be talking with at Facebook engineering.
Any update who actually “won” the invite?
I’m also living here in Munich, but – no doubt I would love to see Mark Zuckerberg again – I think it would be the best for many Germans if TIMO gets the ticket, because he would share his experience with hundreds or even thousands of listeners. Boy, his podcast is famous!
Pleas give it to Timo!!!
remove all the “_” for his email: t_i_mo (at) bits_un_d_so.de
Hi everybody,
we picked Timo ( http://www.tech...comment-2493343 ) as the lucky guest for tonight’s event.
For all of you who you can’t make it tonight, there is a very nice public event again tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg in Munich: There are still very few places left:
http://www.new....9&ref=share
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Time: 3:45pm – 6:45pm
Location: LMU München, Raum M218
Street: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
City/Town: München, Germany
All the best from Munich,
Felix
Mark and TechCrunch have a few things in common. Drive, ambition, a very high growth curve. I would love to talk to Mark to see what successful people are made of.
I’m an internet marketer. I just want to meet him and talk about whats going on in the industry. Just being around him would spake some creativity in my mind and to get me thinking.
There are lots of opportunities only. This would only be a learning experience for me to meet someone I look up to.
Screech is going to be there? What about Zack, Kelly, Slater and the rest of the gang too?