Goldman Sachs' Annual "Tech Fuckfest" Hits Las Vegas
Goldman Sachs annual conference wooing tech startups is currently underway in Las Vegas and TechCrunch got its hands on the agenda for what it calls "one of the most high-end and hush-hush events in the tech world."
A former attendee described the debauchery a little differently, telling Valleywag: "It's a tech fuckfest." Multiple sources told Valleywag that Dave Morin was spotted misbehaving at a club after-party last year. There's a reason no reporters are allowed.
According to TechCrunch, the secrecy involved cannot be overstated:
It's essentially like the Hackers Conference or dinners at Sheryl Sandberg's house or Fight Club, except for tech executives who are likely to soon go through an IPO or big M&A deal. If you're on the invite list, you're in pretty good company — and the first rule is that you don't talk about it to others.
Luckily, the agenda names names. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel will be there, so will Path CEO Dave Morin, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, Warby Parker co-CEO Dave Gilboa, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, the CEO of Gilt Groupe Michele Peluso, Buzzfeed's Jon Steinberg, and more.
But the "belle of the ball," says TechCrunch, will be Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who is being interviewed by (wait for it) Anthony Noto, former dotcom hype man who helped Goldman Sachs become the lead underwriter for Twitter's IPO.
Don't let what happens at tech fuckfest stay in Vegas: tips@valleywag.com.
A full list of participating companies is below:
1.1-800-Flowers.com
2.42Floors
3.4rge Media
4.555 Capital
5.99designs
6.Accel Partners
7.Access Industries
8.Achievers
9.Activision Blizzard
10.Adam Rothenberg
11.Adams Street Partners
12.Adobe
13.Advance Publications
14.Aereo, Inc.
15.Agent of Change
16.AirPR
17.Aleph VC
18.Altimeter Capital
19.Amazon
20.AnchorFree
21.Andreessen Horowitz
22.AOL
23.Apartment List
24.Apax Partners
25.Appia
26.Atlas Peak
27.August Capital
28.Austin Ventures
29.Automattic / WordPress
30.Avito
31.Bain Capital Ventures
32.Baixing.com
33.BarkBox
34.Battery Ventures
35.Beachmint
36.Benchmark
37.Betable
38.Beyond the Rack
39.Bigpoint
40.Billpay
41.BlueKai
42.Boingo
43.Boulevard Capital LLC
44.BranchOut
45.Brew Media Relations
46.Brightroll
47.Buzzfeed
48.CafeMom
49.CBS Films
50.CBS Interactive
51.CityMaps
52.Coatue Mgmt
53.Cooley Godward LLP
54.Coupons.com
55.Criag Forman
56.Cross Creek Advisors
57.Crosslink Capital
58.Dafiti
59.Datalogix
60.DataSift
61.Demand Media
62.Dolby
63.Dollar Shave Club
64.Dropbox
65.DST Investment
66.eBay Inc
67.Elevation Partners
68.Equinix
69.Etsy
70.eXelate
71.Facebook
72.Federal Communications Commission
73.Felicis Ventures
74.Figma, Inc
75.flayvr
76.Floodgate
77.Freeman Spogli & Co
78.Freewheel
79.Frontback
80.Fuel Capital
81.Game Insight
82.Gemvara
83.General Atlantic LLC
84.General Catalyst Partners
85.GetYourGuide
86.GGV Capital
87.Gigya
88.Gilt Groupe
89.Glam Media
90.Glassdoor
91.Glynn Capital
92.GoDaddy
93.Goodwin Procter
94.Google Ventures
95.Grand St.
96.Greylock Partners
97.Grubhub Seamless
98.Guggenheim Media
99.Guggenheim Partners
100.Gyft
101.Handybook
102.HauteLook
103.Hearst Corporation
104.Highland Capital Partners
105.Hired
106.Hola
107.Holtzbrinck Ventures
108.Huddle
109.IAC
110.Identified
111.IMA Ventures
112.Industry Ventures
113.Instagram
114.Institutional Venture Partners
115.Intel Capital
116.Internet Brands
117.Intuit
118.Janus Capital Mgmt
119.Jawbone
120.Kadora SA
121.Kanjoya
122.Keepsafe
123.Khosla Ventures
124.Kinnevik Capital
125.KKR
126.Kleiner Perkins
127.Klout
128.Knewton
129.Knotch
130.KPCB
131.Kynetic
132.L85
133.Lakestar
134.LendingClub
135.Liberty Media
136.Lightspeed Venture Partners
137.LINE
138.LinkedIn
139.Lookout Inc.
140.Lowercase Capital
141.Lumosity
143.Lyst
144.Magisto
145.Magma
146.Marin Software
147.Markafoni
148.Mashery
149.Mason Capital Mgmt LLC
150.Matrix Partners
151.Maverick Capital
152.Maveron
153.MessageMe
154.Metrodigi
155.MFS Inv Mgmt
156.Microsoft Corporation
157.Minkabu, Inc.
158.Mobile Roadie
159.Monetate
160.MoPub
161.Morgan Stanley Inv Mgmt
162.MyTime
163.Nanigans
164.NastyGal
165.NEA
166.NFL
167.NGP Energy Technology
168.NHN
169.Nike Digital
170.Nordstrom
171.Norwest Venture Partners
172.NV Investments, Inc.
173.Oak Investment Company
174.Oak VC
175.OnDeck
176.One Kings Lane
177.ooVoo
178.Open English
179.OpenSky
180.Ostrovok
181.Partner Fund
182.Passport Capital
183.PasswordBox
184.Path
185.Pearl.com
186.Perion
187.Pine River Capital Management
188.Plarium
189.Pose
190.Providence
191.Qualtrics
192.Quantcast Corporation
193.Quora
194.Rackspace
195.Ranku
196.Recruit Strategic Partners
197.Redfin
198.Redpoint Ventures
199.Reputation.com
200.Research Gate
201.RetailMeNot
202.Rizvi Traverse Management
203.Saavn Music
204.SAP Ventures
205.Say Media
206.Scale Venture Partners
207.Science
208.scopely
209.ScoreBig
210.Scripps Networks
211.Scripted.com
212.SeatMe/Yelp
213.Sequoia Capital
214.Shasta Ventures
215.Shazam
216.Sherpa Ventures
217.ShopRunner
218.Silver Lake Partners
219.simply hired
220.Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
221.Simulmedia
222.Snapchat
223.Snapdeal.com
224.Snaps
225.Socialbakers
226.SocialRadar
227.SoftTech VC
228.Sole Society
229.SoundCloud
230.Spectrum Equity
231.Speek
232.SPIL Games
233.Spotify
234.StarHill Associates
235.Stitch Fix
236.Storm8, Inc
237.Stripe
238.Styleseat
239.Summa Group
240.Summit Partners
241.SurveyMonkey
242.SV Angel
243.T Rowe Price
244.Tango.me
245.TCV
246.TeleSign
247.TellApart
248.Temasek International Pte Ltd
249.Tencent Holdings
250.textPlus
251.The Social+Capital Partnership
252.The Summit
253.Thinkful
254.Third Point Advisors
255.Threadless
256.thredUP
257.Thrive Capital
258.Thumbtack
259.Tiger Global
260.TigerText
261.TPG Capital
262.Trendyol.com
263.TrialPay
264.Trident Capital
265.TuneIn
266.Turn
267.Twitter
268.Uber
269.Udemy
270.UOL
271.Valiant Capital Mgmt LP
272.vArmour
273.Venrock
274.Viola Group
275.Voyat
276.Vy Capital
277.Wanelo
278.Warburg Pincus
279.Wayfair
280.WhatsApp
281.Whisper
282.WillCall
283.Wonga
284.Yahoo!
285.Yelp
286.Yplan
287.Zady
288.ZestFinance
289.Ziff Brothers Invs LLC
290.Zynga
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