An Evening with Chris O'Brien

SF developers! I'm a founder and entrepreneur looking for a couple superstar iOS developers to join an extremely promising mobile startup (we're on the verge of some major funding). App belongs to the "sharing" space. We're a 5-person company, so this is high-risk, high-reward stuff. If interested, feel free to message me.

An interesting conversation...

Great meetup today. Chris' interview was very insightful.

I really wanted to attend but missed being moved from the waitlist to the attending list... damn!

Thanks Mike for the awesome pizza and beer!

Thanks to Mike at Yahoo, we'll have pizza, sodas, beer, and cookies for about 150 and plenty of space, so I'm raising the RSVP limit so that we can hopefully include everyone who wants to join us tonight. See you this evening!

Here's a question for Chris: What is Apple's biggest danger in the post Steve Jobs era?

QUESTION: You have reported on Silicon Valley for almost 15 years... 3 questions:

1. What trend/technology/company that died do you wish had made it?
2. Conversely what made it that you wish had not?
3. What is the most amazing story/company/person you encountered?

QUESTION: If you had to invest your money in a new mobile software company, what solution would they be creating?

QUESTION: What is the biggest challenge facing mobile software developers who are trying to make money?

QUESTION: What does the Scottish Fiddle have to do with technology reporting :-) (see the end of the memo at http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/11/la_times_hires_an_apple_r.php and the fact Chris spent a year The University of Glasgow in 1990)

QUESTION: Wearable Computing seems to be an emerging trend, but everything seems like a toy (reminds of me the Newton). Is Wearable coming? What will it look like?

QUESTION: One upon a time, Apple was a small company... who are the small companies to watch now? What will disrupt the game?

QUESTION: Everywhere you turn you read a variation on "Without Steve, Apple can not change the world", what do you think?

QUESTION: Many CEO's that come after superstars do not last too long. How is Tim Cook doing and will he be around a while?

QUESTION: Apple Trademarked "iWatch". Assuming it is not a wristwatch, what could it be for?

QUESTION: Does Apple have any more "Steve" originated innovations heading towards product? If so, what do you think they are?

QUESTION: You have spent years working on reinventing the newsroom... what apps are missing?