After working hard, we decided to hardly work

Flew back yesterday from The Summit with 70 other totally ADD serial entrepreneurs. Man, what a trip. In addition to the odds being in the girls’ favor (1:11 girl:guy ratio) ha! jk! the crew was amazing; there was an amazing cross-section of entrepreneurial minds, especially from the tech space. I normally don’t hang with that crew, so it was just a total blast. Viva la Mexico!

Summer Rayne Oakes, David de Rothschild, Graham Hill, Catherine Levene

Catherine Levene (Daily Candy); Graham Hill (Treehugger); David de Rothschild (Adventure Ecology) and I chill poolside in Playa del Carmen in between mingling and more mingling.

Scott Harrison at TOMS Shoe Drop in Mexico

Scott Harrison strikes a pose outside of Cancun, Mexico where Jake Strom (TOMS) arranged a last minute shoe drop. Scott later went on to give a presentation on Charity: Water that touched the whole crew. So forget what I said before, I’m postponing my trip to go the the Charity: Water ball on December 15th. It’ll be a whole Summit reunion too – as I think the whole NYC crew and some of the left coast contingent will be coming too.

Scott Bailey, David de Rothschild, and James Siminoff

Scott, David and James chill out during dinner. Images compliments of H. Rowland!

Stay tuned for more down the road. I’m certain after this event they’ll be more biz collaborations. As I said, most of us will be re-uniting at Scott’s event on December 15th, so come out, buy some wells, and have a good time.

What I learned at the Summit:

  • Tech entrepreneurs are not as dorky as you think they are
  • West Coast can’t win at tug-of-war unless they cheat :o )
  • Don’t tackle Tim Ferriss unless you want to be broken in half on your back in the sand
  • So many good ideas, so little time
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5 Responses to “After working hard, we decided to hardly work”

  1. brian vatter says:
    November 28, 2008 at 8:46 am

    It looks like we’ll have to design some more “boy toys” for next year’s event – if this 1:11 ratio holds up! :)

    Love your work by the way. Great stuff.

    Brian

    co-Founder, OhMiBod “Where Tech and Pleasure, Come Together”

  2. Summer Rayne Oakes says:
    December 22, 2008 at 12:41 am

    [...] past week at the Metropolitan Pavilion. I got to have some down time with Scott (the founder) in Mexico, which doesn’t really happen all that often. Scott gave a riveting talk in Mexico at The [...]

  3. Summer Rayne Oakes says:
    January 18, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    [...] Green Inaugural Ball was packed with familiar faces. I got to catch up with a bunch of friends from The Summit – (Eben, Ben H., Elliot, Brett, Garrett, and Graham to be exact). Yah, you can tell some good [...]

  4. Summer Rayne Oakes says:
    February 15, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    [...] for Charity: Water. Pure genius. I have to think this was mainly conspired/inspired after that Mexico trip, but I didn’t get the full report from Scott, Caroline and the other cats behind the scenes. [...]

  5. Christoph Böck says:
    January 10, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    thanks for having an insight look ,simply an example for the realisation ,that we are all one ,

    love you !

    keep peace,

    live is wonderful !

    Christoph Böck , Buggingen

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