i have not yet orchestrated the accidental bump-in.
and, shockingly, i haven’t even wandered up to fred’s floor to scope out the union square ventures office situation. i deserve some kinda medal for all the restraint i’m exerting. not to mention the embarrassment i’m not causing the rest of the company (all 3 of them). unless they’re reading this, of course.
anyway, i just know the chance meeting with fred wilson will happen soon.
two close calls must mean something:
1. i saw the back of his partner brad burnham’s head as he was leaving the building.
here’s a picture of brad burnham from the front, so you can imagine what he looked like from the back.
b. i saw this twitter message from fred:
i was at taralucci’s exactly one hour after fred wilson.
at that very same spot. and it’s small, so i was probably even standing exactly where he stood. ‘course, i was getting gelato instead of espresso. but still!!! surely this is a sign. of what, i’m not sure, but a sign nonetheless.
so i asked lewis, our ceo, what he would say to fred wilson if he happened to see him in the elevator. a possible scenario, requiring an actual elevator pitch.
“what would you say?” i asked.
“why do you ask me these things?” he answered.
and then, after the obligatory eye-rolling (which, yes, i get a lot), he proceeded to give me the pitch. it was good, and definitely do-able in 13 floors.
and now i know fred’s not a shine deli kinda guy.
the fred wilson watch 2008 continues…
unabashedly yours,
andrea
ps – i wonder if anyone ever calls him freddy.
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