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Sam @ TED
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Events at 10:58 pm on Sunday, 11 March 2007

BillSamAnother cool thing about selling your company for half a billion US dollars is that you get invited to speak at big events.

Check out Sam at TED in Monterey. http://ted2007.vox.com/speakers/. Doesn’t that swell your New Zealand heart with pride. Just awesome.

I had to ask him what famous people he met … “Tracy Chapman, Jeff Bezos, Cameron Diaz, Pierre Omidyar, YouTube guys, etc, etc”.

How cool is that!!!

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Comments(4)

    Comment by Dan at 9:20 am on 12 March 2007

    That’s awesome. TED is such a great event. Rod, maybe it’ll be you up there next year?




    Comment by Tim Norton at 10:54 am on 12 March 2007

    Woohoo - That is really wicked, there’s not that many people anywhere who do a cash sale for half a billion US$. Go Sam, Go NZ.




    Comment by Tim at 2:19 pm on 12 March 2007

    Wow, incredible! Hoping they will publish a Ted-Talk for Sam?




    Comment by Jason Kemp at 12:56 pm on 19 April 2007

    100 Ted Talks have now been released to the public - all dating from 2006 or earlier at this stage. A great resource.