Startup cities/Austin chat with @garyvee and @kevinrose at John Erik Metcalf

Some of the hippest peeps on the net have been playing with Seesmic recently. Yesterday Gary Vaynerchuck tweeted that him and kevinrose where on there chatting it up. So, I hopped over and asked a couple questions.

Here’s the deal:

(Juan Sequeda asked the city ranking question to PG at StartupSchool and was telling me about it over bagels last week.)

(oh yeah. facial hair. … like I said in my first video up there - boulder, techstars, gwen bell, andrew hyde… kickin some ass. I’ve been to Boulder once (in CO I always go to Telluride with fam) but I’m wanna come see yall soon. …totally agree on the valley talk. …I also know! Austin is a kick ass city and I’m trying to develop this sucker - that’s why we got Startup District rollin. Since southby I gave myself 1 year to see what we could turn this place into, and it’s coming along nicely.)

(sorry ’bout the sound on this one)

Gary In Austin! Tuesday, June 3rd - Austin, TX

1:00 PM–Book Signing at Grape Vine Market, 7938 Great Northern Boulevard, Austin, TX 78757

These guys are a blast. Here’s a garyvee with a Radar sticker. heh

Gray is a mofo that knows how to love his fans and customers. I love how it just flows outta the guy — every time he’s talking it’s just like “Thank you sooo much for your question”, “Awesome t shirt”, “I love your burp”, whatever.. he makes ya feel good. Everyone can take a lesson. Kevin was kick ass at this too. Just more to the point - “what your question? BAM I’m gonna tell you the answer; and it’s a good one.”

ludwigvan968

Little more content in the post would be nice, but I like that you are posting some vid. The Austin response was pretty lame, but honest at the same time. Maybe you can show them around a little when they come back:P

John Erik

thanks for the comment Joseph. more content next time - will try. just trying to post more often - so sometimes i have to make them short. love that you are telling me what you want though. thanks..

@gloriakt

Thanks for sharing! Cool stuff. Good to see those guys really engaging w/ the a large audience. As always, a big fan of what you guys are doing with Startup District. Wonder if Austin can find its own niche - i mean not web ver.sion - you know?

People are highlighting semantic as something to watch out for in the near future (albeit that has been the discussion for years) BUT -what if semantic/AI etc becomes Austin's startup of choice?

Heading to see gary on Tuesday? Also, sad - i would have loved to ask a question! too bad i was driving to BFE when i saw the tweet.

John Erik

thanks for the kind words KG (can i call you KG?)

haha.. yeah BFE indeed. hope yall had a good time. ropeswing?

i do like the idea of austin being a semantic hub - really like that idea actually. that or cloud computing (rackspace)

Steve Odom

You are making it happen! Keep up the good work. A startup district is something Austin needs.

Cesar Torres

Rockin' dude. Let's show Gary a good time when he's here. I'm thinking, some east side mexican food?

gochi

Videos tells the story what john is going to tell that is more important thing. Thanks john very good post.

John Erik Metcalf

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