Just got to my hotel from the techcrunch crunchie awards. Super cool event.
I had a press pass so after the show I got to spend some time with the winners who I had talked to online or had been on my radio show but I have never met in person before:
Pete Cashmore of mashable.com
Founder of FaceBook Mark Zuckerberg
Matt Mullenweg founder of Wordpress
Kevin Rose founder of Digg.com
I just want to thank Michael Arrington of Techcrunch.com again for the pass. I had a great time.
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
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January 19, 2008 at 3:09 am
Shoe-
I saw you featured on the Techcrunch party post cool!!!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/19/2007-crunchies-party-report-brotherly-love-and-a-guy-who-wears-sunglasses-at-night/
January 19, 2008 at 3:16 am
lol @ Kevin Rose
January 19, 2008 at 3:43 am
nice one shoe! I’d love to meet all those guys.
January 19, 2008 at 4:01 am
Is that Kevin Rose? LOL yeah it is!
Shoe… keep on rocking
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January 19, 2008 at 4:39 am
Nice one Jeremy, I too would have loved to meet some of those people. Kevin Rose does look a bit lost
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David
January 19, 2008 at 4:55 am
too cool!
January 19, 2008 at 5:17 am
Those dudes are so young!
January 19, 2008 at 6:08 am
Why didn’t you pose with Mike Arrington?
Were they any other high profile Geek Stars there
January 19, 2008 at 7:32 am
Shoe is hangin’ with the big guys, even got to hang with Zuckerberg and Arrington. Nice.
January 19, 2008 at 8:12 am
http://www.shoemoney.com/gallery/v/TechCrunch40/michael-arrington.jpg.html
Everyone that was nominated for an award was there and also pretty much a who’s who of 2.0 company founders
January 19, 2008 at 8:12 am
Couldn’t find Tom from Myspace for a photo? lol
January 19, 2008 at 8:13 am
ya I had no idea the facebook guy was 23…. pretty impressive
January 19, 2008 at 9:38 am
Wow. Looks like an incredible experience. Any insight to those guys’ personalities? What are they like in conversation?
January 19, 2008 at 10:21 am
So who won? I dont want to have to go to TechCrunch to see >_<
January 19, 2008 at 11:26 am
That is awesome!!!
Some big name pictures there! Lucky 
January 19, 2008 at 11:32 am
Lots of big money names… All young men, making it rich. The internet belongs to the young, and that proves it once again. Would love to meet those guys, such an inspiration, a great positive vibe hanging with those guys. Good work Shoe
January 19, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Is it me or does Kevin Rose look like he always wears the same outfit?
January 19, 2008 at 1:06 pm
There are some big webmasters there
January 19, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hey Shoemoney, that was awesome, appreciate you willing to take a picture with me to before the ceremony, made my day! Thanks!
January 19, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Funny…out of all those “big timers” – shoe is the only one who actually figured out how to make money online.
January 19, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Good to see all those young kids came up with all those brilliant ideas. Inspiring as well.
January 19, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I liked Mark Zuckerberg’s interview on 60 Minutes. The reporter said something to the effect of “There’s a lot of buzz saying that you”ll be as powerful as the guys who founded Google.” (or something like that)
She paused and waited for him to respond. He says “Is that a question?” and then laughs. He just seemed very laid back.
January 19, 2008 at 2:16 pm
You gotta watch the 60-mins interview with him from last week.
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080114/facebook-the-entire-60-minutes-segment/
January 19, 2008 at 2:35 pm
there must be people worth over $2-3 Billion in that same building.
January 19, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Wow… so you got to meet all those people???
That’s amazing!
What was it like to be around all those famous people? Did you feel like you were inspired by them so you could create something as successful as they did?
January 19, 2008 at 3:36 pm
dang you met kevin rose lol. I remember watching his episodes on “thebroken”.
January 19, 2008 at 3:37 pm
no way, I always see kevin wearing casual clothes.
January 19, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Well aren’t they all? Facebook and Digg are online sites/services and Shoe started with Nextpimp which is also a site/service that people used and he monetized. You could argue that the difference is Shoe didn’t reinvent the wheel to make money and these guys (most pictured) created something completely new. It’s the difference between using a site in a new way to make money (Nextpimp), and creating a new technology to change the way we use the web (Facebook, Digg).
January 19, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I remember kevin rose from tech tv I am pretty sure. Looks like a lot of big people in one place, almost everything big on the internet someone there invented it.
January 19, 2008 at 7:31 pm
looks like it was a lot of fun! Thanks for the pics w/ all the cool people
January 19, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Totally awesome… I wish I was able to attend the event myself. Maybe next year =)
January 19, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Must have been nice to be rubbing elbows with a billionaire (Mark).
January 19, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Nice post.
January 19, 2008 at 10:16 pm
He does knows a lot of famous people.
January 19, 2008 at 10:16 pm
They really know how to earn some money.
January 19, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I agree. All these people are successful in their own right. Just because they didn’t want to do something to make money initially doesn’t mean it won’t benefit them in the long run.
January 20, 2008 at 12:51 am
Matt looks totally different from the pic on his blog! o.0
January 20, 2008 at 3:18 am
Some pretty cashed up young dudes there.
January 20, 2008 at 8:01 am
That’d definitely be true. However, Kevin Rose adds nothing to that figure. As much traffic as Digg gets… it cant seem to monetize it. I would rather have less hits with more people clicking than their loads of hits with noone clicking.
January 20, 2008 at 9:59 am
looks like shoe has put on some weight
January 20, 2008 at 1:02 pm
That’s awesome. It is good to be young and famous with the internet opening a lot of doors to smart people with ideas.
January 20, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Damn cool.
January 20, 2008 at 5:23 pm
They all look so very young!
January 21, 2008 at 12:56 am
Awesome man! I would love to meet up with those big guys out there! Great job Shoe, would be great if you could rope me in in your next visit to such cool places
January 21, 2008 at 3:24 am
oh that super successful younger
January 21, 2008 at 9:57 am
these guys look like average guys that you wouldn’t expect to be running or founded such well known companies.
January 21, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Looks like an awesome night. I have always wondered what the successful people look like. But congratulations to you and all the other guys at the awards. You all thoroughly deserve it. Nice pictures. I see digg.com got an award. All magnificent sites.
Regards Andrew
January 23, 2008 at 12:18 pm
wow Shoe, you got some pics with the BIG NAMES in the online industry
-Mike
February 1, 2008 at 10:06 am
Pictures for a few. Only the elite of the Internet in the photos, including the creator of ShoeMoney
February 3, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Wow. Mashable dude is hot.