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Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster and Socializr, had some pretty good things to say. As you all know, Friendster blew up and didn’t survive the “hockeystick” in growth. However, he is applying everything he learned to his new business, Socializr.

He threw a lot of money at problems and it didn’t improve anything. He was innovating on infrastructure, but that led to Friendster’s demise.

So I’ll apologize for my past post. Despite his obvious mistakes with Friendster, he learned a lot from it. He continuously admitted throughout his presentation that he did so much wrong, and I applud him for that. It’s part of San Francisco web 2.0 startup culture that if you fail, you get up and try again, and that’s what he’s doing now with Socializr.

In any event, here’s my breakdown of the event:

1a) Quality of Attendees: 8/10: Pretty smart and awesome geeks, but not many of the investor types. I didn't meet as many people this time, but that's probably because I hang around the same social circles.

1b) Hotness of Attendees: 3/10: Pretty damn ugly. What do you expect at GeekSessions? 100:1 Male to Female ratio.

2) Quality of Presenters: 9/10: These presenters went through real life experiences and shared them at the event. Jonathan Abrams had a great presentation, but the Q&A moderator (Ops Guy @ Yelp) disagreed with him on several topics. Sandy Jen was cool, but couldn’t answer a few questions asked by the audience. She even admitted that the meebo growth relied on an amazing ops team that she wasn’t (exactly) part of.



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3) Venue/Location: 9/10: 110 Sansome had an awesome room for Geeksessions, but the seats were pretty uncomfortable.

4) Food/Drink: 7/10: Unlike the last Geeksessions, there was no open buffet. The appetizer trays kinda sucked, but the free booze makes up for this.

5) Overall, Worth Attending? Definitely. Geeksesions is an awesome event to learn a lot and meet incredibly bright geeks.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She’s currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com and Jessicamah.com.

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