NY Tech Week

The exhaustion from the weekend, travel, and long days of meetings finally caught up to me yesterday. I hit a bit of a wall in the afternoon and really had to do my best to power through. I ended up grabbing a quick dinner with a couple people from the team and took the night easy. I feel great today and I’m ready to have a great day to close the week out.

I’ve gone to a couple NY Tech Week events, but admittedly skipped out on a few I registered for as well. There’s definitely a noticeable tech crowd around the city, but being such a large city makes the events a bit spread out. Unlike some of the events in San Francisco when there’s a real concentration downtown, the NY one seems to be a bit more all over the place.

In terms of events, I will say that I always end up enjoying them more than I expect. I went to a talk with the Founder of Rent the Runway and COO of Reddit at the Reddit offices yesterday, and I really enjoyed what both of the presenters had to say. I met a few awesome people and even met a client randomly in person from many years ago.

Generally, these conferences and events are not usually very helpful for Secfi as a business. We work typically with late stage companies and these events almost always skew early stage. With that said, they are definitely great networking events and serve as a good excuse to get a lot of partners and investors together in the same area.

I’ve got one big day today of meetings and getting stuff done. Then I’ll take tomorrow morning off before I fly back home.