And, Speaking Of Orgies, Who Can Forget The Star-Studded Bacchanalian 'Taxidermy' Party?
The coat check. You arrive here after being greeted by some extremely attractive people whose sole job was to greet you.
The stage. That's a full-sized stuffed grizzly.
A cape buffalo. With laser beams for eyes.
The wine bar. That's Joe Schoendorf of Accel Partners over toward the left. And Gillian Tett of the FT is in the middle at the back.
Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, on the right. Scott Cutler, EVP, has his back to the camera.
That's Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, on the stage. When he came in, another guest mistook him for someone at JP Morgan-Chase. Gary fist-bumped him to let him know he didn't hold it against him.
Soundcloud CEO Alex Ljung. Drew Houston of Dropbox was nearby (not pictured).
Jacob Weisberg, President of The Slate Group
Jonathan Lenson, Director of Business Development of WPP (left) and Mark Read, CEO of WPP Digital.
Jimmy Wales, the inventor of Wikipedia, talking to David Jones, the CEO of Havas.
John Gapper of the FT.
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo (under another animal head with the laser eyes)
Marissa Mayer and Jimmy Wales dodging laser beams.
David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy (right). And me (left).
Maria Seidman, the founder of Yapp, and her husband Dov Seidman, the CEO of LRN.
Sean Parker (right), Mark Benioff (center), and Ian Osborne (left)
Sean Parker (left) shushing the crowd as John Legend begins to play...
There were dozens more folks you might know there, including hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb, Harvard professor Ken Rogoff, Slide founder Max Levchin, Idealab CEO Bill Gross, Tom Hulme of IDEO, digital journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, Newsweek's Dan Gross, Google's Nikesh Aurora, Goldman's PR boss Jake Siewart, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, and many more. But my pictures of those folks are even worse. So I'll close with the cape buffalo again.
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