invite-only
So we hear that Peter Thiel, the former PayPal CEO turned venture capitalist, threw a really great Fourth of July party. Fabulous, even. Ben Casnocha, the
teenage goth entrepreneur,
attended, naturally, but it appears that our invitations were lost in the mail. A pity. For those lucky few who made the guest list, care to
send in more reports?
ben casnocha
Most teenagers are convinced of their own immortality. But not Ben Casnocha, the famed teenage entrepreneur,
book author, and ladies' man. A week from tomorrow, Casnocha is convening a salon to discuss a "'CEO approach' to dying." Never mind that Casnocha hasn't figured out a "CEO approach" to, say,
actually doing business. I'm sure that he'll assemble a room full of graybeards who will listen raptly as he gives his thoughts on the hereafter — even though they're on much better speaking terms with the Grim Reaper than Casnocha. After the jump, the full invite.
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my startup life
NICK DOUGLAS — After my boss (and this site's editor) wrote a
bitchy little post making fun of the author and self-described "very young CEO" Ben Casnocha for running a mere million-dollar business (Come on, he had six years to build it! Nevermind that in year 1, he was 12) he asked for a "rude" interview with Casnocha. Below, the author of "
My Startup Life" explains why an inexperienced 19-year-old can teach "established businesspeople" basic principles and why Marc Benioff, the old-guard exec who wrote Casnocha's foreword, isn't as nasty as everyone says.
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unfair ratios
Regarding entrepreteen Ben Casnocha's claim to have
attended a party where he and Google founder Sergey Brin were the only two men in a room of 40 women, Heidi Rozen of Mobius Venture Capital wrote in to defend "Sergey's honor and Ben's veracity":
while it is fun to see the speculation about Ben's post, I feel I must set the record straight, if only to defend Sergey's honor. The true story:
Ellen Levy and I had an event at my house for a group of female friends and work associates of ours, we called the gathering 'power chicks of Silicon Valley' on our Evite.
But who are these power chicks, and what do they want with our menfolk?
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disputed ratios
At least when it comes to a Google cofounder. The wide-eyed
18-year-old entrepreneur and
youthful wisdom-font says:
Within four hours of landing in the Bay Area from Denver for a long weekend at home I found myself at a Silicon Valley party with 40 women and 2 men — Google co-founder Sergey Brin and me.
Supposedly, the ladies wanted Brin for his money and Casnocha for his looks. Local sources doubt the veracity of this account, or at least doubt the 20:1 female:male ratio as unheard of in Silicon Valley. Show us the photos, Ben, or we're just going to assume you and Sergey were hanging out with a flock of trannies.
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great moments in journalism
Ben Casnocha, teenage entrepreneur, on his ping pong game (but also applicable to his business pursuits): "I plan on improving quite a bit in college. Right now I'm all muscle; I need more finesse. I need more spin in my game." [Ben Casnocha: The Blog]
