Phil and I were walking by a garbage truck in Zurich, thinking that it seemed a little overkill to use a crane to lift up a little sidewalk garbage can:
Then it got more interesting:
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Paul P!
Paul P has sent me a most awesome care package of Swiss goodies (the chocolate is already gone 🙂 ):
Paul is a fellow Swiss ex-pat (he lives in Cyprus). We were traveling together in South America a few weeks ago and started talking about random Swiss foods that we miss while living abroad. I guess he’s been spending time in the homeland. Thank you Paul!
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BackType!
Another great startup from the True Ventures portfolio has been successfully acquired: Congratulations to the BackType team for joining Twitter.
PS: Manu has a great post with some of the BackType background story.
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VMware buys Socialcast
Big congratulations to Tim for selling his company, to Om for seeing his first True investment come to fruition, and to True for another great investment outcome!
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OpenSource.com Webcast
I’ll be on a webcast this Thursday talking about Automattic’s open source based business model.
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Om!
Congratulations to Om for breaking the Skype-Microsoft news, which must be among the very biggest tech stories ever broken by a blogger. And as Om told me this morning, this is the kind of day when you are glad to be hosted on WordPress.com (GigaOM is a WordPress VIP and is currently seeing record traffic spikes due to their Skype coverage).
