Things I'm passionate about: making things of value, technology, startups, product strategy, simple design, online advertising.
Other things I love: music, investing, screenwriting, the outdoors, running, good food, wine, reading, San Francisco.
I work in Sales Planning and Development at Pandora.
I'm also a co-founder at BlastGroups.
You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/gordonbowman.
"After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public."
In the meantime, the unemployment rate in California is now over 12%, a near record high. The national rate is at 10%. Credit markets are totally frozen and small businesses—the most dynamic part of the U.S. economy are suffocating for lack of operating capital. So slightly tweaking a law to allow smart foreigners to jumpstart our economy would seem to be a really easy decision politically and economically. Rather than listening to the emotion of misguided anti-immigrants, we need to listen to reason. After all, it is immigrants like Alex who have started 52% of Silicon Valley’s tech companies in recent times.
With all the talk on creating jobs and boosting economic growth, this really is a no-brainer.
Early on someone said “Twitter is fun but it isn’t useful”. Ev said... “Neither is ice cream.”
-Biz Stone
