I thought the Google and Yahoo founders were new model entrepreneurs, far too down-to-earth to use their status to ogle models. David Filo used to sleep under his desk, for heaven's sake. Sergey Brin dates an older woman. So what to make of this snippet, which must have come from Ron Burkle or the nightclub's promoter, in a
New York Magazine article on billionaire lifestyles?
Door, as the nightclub is creatively called, popped up late this summer. No one is supposed to know it's there. It is where moguls go: After the Yahoo board meeting, Jerry Yang and David Filo came by. Another night in the fall, Sergey Brin and Larry Page were there. Supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, Virgin head Richard Branson, and Steve Bing, the down-to-earth Democratic donor who inherited nearly a billion dollars from his real-estate-magnate grandfather, the developer of some of the most beautiful Art Deco buildings on Park Avenue and the West Village. Advance men for President Clinton. Few other guys can get in, except for a couple of model wranglers, those handsome, usually South American guys who round up models at their apartments and herd them to nightclubs. Promoter Danny A., a friend of Ron Burkle's, runs this place—he even got to go on a trip to Israel with President Clinton.
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*Yawn* This is so Valleywag circa 11/10/06. Total suckage. Bring back the Nick Denton from 1:00pm today. We want scoops, deals, reporting, scoops and more scoops!
This new layout blows--the logo looks like something out of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, the text is tough to read, and no one gives a shit about where Filo is striking out with women. If you could discuss what snot-nosed 30-something VCs are getting shitcanned, that'd be great.
I don't think anyone actually believes that any of the moguls listed above are actually getting lucky at this club. They probably go with Al Gore and talk about his movie the whole night.
Are there any of these clubs in East Bay!?!
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