{mosimage}Tony Perkins opened the 2008 Summit at Stanford 6pm 7/22/08 with remarks about the economy, politics, and entrepreneurial environment. KPMG presented their analysis of the AlwaysOn top 250 Companies, including information on tech M&A over the past few years.
Jack Dorsey from Twitter showed up to accept the award as selection as the #1 startup out of the AO 250. He shared some more details about the Berkeley Journalism student who was freed from a jail in Egypt by the Twitter community. There was a lot of twittering going on throughout the conference, as attendees posted to Twitter; and exchanged notes while watching the conference live webcast feed.
Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital is conducting a panel on “Big Media’s Comeback” featuring Albert Cheng EVP Digital Networks at ABC-Disney, John Edwards CEO of Move Networks, Thomas Lesinksi President of Paramount Digital Entertainment, Michael Montgomery President of Montgomery & Co, and Todd Teresi SVP Yahoo!. Tom Lesinksi is explaining how Hollywood’s 50-year old business model, being very lucrative, are difficult to disrupt.