The Pandemic Happened and I'm a Developer and I Was a PR Person at the Code Conference

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Bill Gurley: I had a poker game with Brooke Hammerling the famous PR person at the code conference which was the all things D conference before that for 20 years then Trimoff had had a pokergame sacks. Saks has some ideas about masks and then Friedberg there was no besties originally right. He played in the game obviously and we had just started to have a developer friendship but anyway that for some kind of clicked right pretty quickly.

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