11th day in Silicon Valley

Hi Everyone,

Today is our 11th day in Silicon Valley. Tomorrow we are leaving. This trip is going so fast. Our first stop today was at Peet's Coffee shop to discuss book reports. Today Adam, me, and Aaron presented. The book I presented on was The Numerati.

The first company we visited was Facebook. We met with Dave Fetterman, he talked a lot about what we they look for in college graduates. He was very encouraging. When hiring for a job they look for people that are passionate about the job and they don't focus to heavily on what skills you have. I enjoyed talking with him because he talked more about what opportunities to look for in our future and less about Facebook.

Our next stop was Microsoft. Our first meeting was with Dan l' Lewin. He was one of the first employees of Apple at the beginning of the company. We learned a lot about how Microsoft keeps the Entrepreneurial spirit in their employees when Microsoft is such a large company. It was a honor to get to talk with him. After our meeting with Dan we meet got to see a large computer table touch screen that allowed you to navigate through programs using touch screen technology. It was awesome and they are only $10,000.

After our meeting at Microsoft we met with Neil MacAvoy at Intel. He talked about the steps that need to be taken in order for a chip to be created. It was very interesting and I was excited that I knew a little bit about what he was talking about. We had discussed some of the things he was talking about in my MIS class.

After our meeting at Intel we went back to the hotel.For dinner we ate an Italian restaurant called La Strada.

I had the Grilled Wild Salmon Pantesca for my dinner entree and for desert I had Soffiato di Cioccolato "La Strada" which is warm shokinag chocolate souffle with vanilla gelato. Both were very, very good. After dinner we went back to the hotel and I started packing.

That is all for today.

Bryan