The Next Web, a network of online technology outlets, continued its annual conference Friday in Amsterdam. Heeding to Amsterdam’s night life, The Next Web waited until 10 a.m. to get things started, which was probably just about as early as the sleep-deprived attendees could have hacked it. First up at 10:00 was Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb, who set the day’s theme of counterintuitive thinking by rehashing how cereal, of all things, played an integral roll in springboarding his company, recently valuated at $1 billion.
Burying Conventional Wisdom at The Next Web Conference
Posted by: David Vranicar April 27, 2012 11:12 AMThe Next Web, a network of online technology outlets, continued its annual conference Friday in Amsterdam. Heeding to Amsterdam’s night life, The Next Web waited until 10 a.m. to get things started, which was probably just about as early as the sleep-deprived attendees could have hacked it. First up at 10:00 was Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb, who set the day’s theme of counterintuitive thinking by rehashing how cereal, of all things, played an integral roll in springboarding his company, recently valuated at $1 billion.