The Global Outpouring For Amit Gupta: This Is Touching

@TrendsBangalore
Trendsmap Bangalore#4amit is now trending in #Bangalorehttp://t.co/DpMCGlFD
Nov 16 via Trendsmap AlertingFavoriteRetweetReply

@paramendra
Paramendra Bhagat Sent this out to 600 plus Nepali email addresses: http://t.co/MFV2RrGO@nickgray@superamit@tonybgoode#4amit
Nov 17 via webFavoriteRetweetReply

412 Broadway, Floor 2
New York, 10013-3594
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM (ET)

Super Amit, Super Swabbed
Mike Bloomberg, Amit Gupta

@paramendra
Paramendra Bhagat Sent this out to 600 plus Nepalis in NYC, 9,000 Nepais globally http://t.co/MFV2RrGO@nickgray@superamit@tonybgoode#4amit
Nov 17 via webFavoriteRetweetReply

@paramendra
Paramendra Bhagat@tonybgoode@nickgray Saw stacks of @superamit flyers at a grocery store in Jackson Heights. 11/5 event, Flushing, Ganesh Temple #grassroots
Nov 04 via webFavoriteRetweetReply

Related articles

• #IswabbedforAmit Offers Up 20K To Find A Bone Marrow Donor For Startup Founder Amit Gupta (techcrunch.com)
• Social media may save your life (parenthacks.com)
• jayparkinsonmd: Regarding Amit Gupta, my friend who was... (thegongshow.tumblr.com)
• $30K reward for successful bone marrow match (ctv.ca)
• Tweeting and gaming to save a tech entrepreneur's life (money.cnn.com)
• Can Social Media Save Amit Gupta? (adage.com)
• Amit Gupta Needs You (ruthaakat.wordpress.com)
• 40 Days To Find A Bone Marrow Match For Amit Gupta (adage.com)
• Help our friend Amit Gupta (flickr.net)
• Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't (danshapiro.com)
• Help Amit Gupta (subtraction.com)
• Tech community rallies around Photojojo founder with cancer (sfgate.com)
• Entrepreneur Amit Gupta Still Needs Your Help in Fight Against Leukemia (techland.time.com)
• Photojojo/Jelly founder Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor (tumblr.amitgupta.com)
• Send a free get-well Postagram to Photojojo's Amit Gupta (boingboing.net)
• Help Amit defeat leukemia. (zeldman.com)
• 24k Gold Sorapot auction to benefit Amit Gupta (boingboing.net)
• How to Use Your Photo Powers for Good! (P.S. Come Photo Booth with Us!) (content.photojojo.com)
• Leukemia patient uses social media to find bone marrow match (healthzone.ca)

The Spotify Event Was Great

Image via WikipediaThe Spotify CTO Talk

Spotify is in the same building as Google. I show up and there is Melissa. She is with Barnes & Noble. They are also in the same building. I did not know. I met her at a NY Tech MeetUp after party a few months back.

Free pizza is a great start to an event, I think. Good thing I don't drink beer. Otherwise they had plenty of those too.

The CTO Oskar Stal - who I got to talk to at great length after the formal event was over - started the talks. It was amazing to me how he was obsessed with company culture. He wanted Spotify's engineers to feel like there were many small team startups inside of Spotify. That seemed to be his number one concern.

Later I asked during the question answer session: "Should you not have the Chief Culture Officer title instead?" He said he did culture and many other things.

Henrik Landren gave a great talk - replete with great slides - on all the immense data Spotify collects. I got to see a side of Spotify I had not seen before. Artists get to see where their fans are. That would really help them plan their tours. Magic. Hadoop came in handy.

That made me think. Otherwise I told Oskar, I feel like Spotify is a finished product. What is there to add except more songs and more countries? He is like, oh no no no. There is so much to do.