You've just been LunchedIn!
The past few months saw us reach a few milestones at LinkedIn and we felt that Lunch 2.0 would be a great opportunity to meet a wide cross section of our users who made that possible. Today that wish came true, when we welcomed over 200 professionals from the Bay Area, into our new digs in Mountain View.
The lunch started off promptly at noon with a steady stream of guests arrive and snake their way through our stairway into the cafeteria. Familiar faces in the crowd, included Guy Kawasaki, Rob Hof, Jeremiah
Owyang, Gabe Rivera, Justin Kan, the bub.blicio.us crew, Jeremy Pepper, Shel Israel, Chris Heuer, Daniela Barbosa, Robyn Tippins and many others. Stay tuned for pictures and videos created at the event.
During lunch we recognized the founders of Lunch 2.0, who seem to have inadvertently stumbled upon Silicon Valley's best kept secret - free lunches! Of course, we gifted them LinkedIn lunch boxes and special commemorative red Swingline staplers, made famous by the movie "Office Space". We then heard Allen Blue, one of our co-founders, outline LinkedIn's vision. This seemed all the more appropriate, given our recent string of milestones traversed.
We also injected some fun and games into the atmosphere by setting the stage for two of our favorite office games: 4-square and tennis on the Nintendo Wii! It was great to see many Bay Area professionals having fun in the middle of a busy work-day, play tennis and bowling on the Nintendo Wii console as well as a bunch of others play 4-square in our recently created four-square court.
Thanks to everyone who attended the event for taking time off their busy schedule for some fun, games and lunch. For those of you who missed it, there's always another Lunch 2.0, with one hosted by Netgear coming up in just a week.
Check out our photo archive for updated images from Lunch 2.0
Quick Update: Here are related blog and media posts on our Lunch 2.0
Lunch 2.0: free food, a side of tech talk cafetaria crashers now invited guests (San Francisco Chronicle)
LinkedIn says lets do Lunch 2.0 (bub.blicio.us video interviews with Guy Kawasaki and CEO Dan Nye)
Lunch 2.0 at LinkedIn was incredible (Web Strategy Blog with video)
When LinkedIn met Lunch 2.0 (Marketing Nirvana)
Lunch 2.0 on Chronicle's front page (David Kellogg)
Plaxo gets LunchedIn (Plaxo Blog)
Lunch 2.0 in the SF Chronicle today (Mark Jen)
My first Lunch 2.0 event (just another digirati wannabe blog)
Lunch 2.0 at LinkedIn (Adam Nash)
LunchedIn 2.0 - what a party! (Official Lunch 2.0 blog)
Lunch 2.0 has been chronicled (Joseph Smarr)