OMG, I just met Steve Ballmer!

May 6th, 2009 | 20,062 views | 10 Comments » |

Shaking hands with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer. Notice, he is wearing THE T-SHIRT I DESIGNED!

More info and a full story coming as soon as I have time to write a full blog post. In the meantime, enjoy this video of Steve’s speech!

Update 11/07/2009: It looks like the video of Steve’s speech has been removed from the ETL website. Next time I’ll download it and host it locally.

Update 9/24/2010: While looking through old blog posts, I realized that I never told the story of meeting Steve Ballmer. Here’s the short version:

After Steve finished his one-hour talk in Memorial Auditorium at Stanford, he went backstage to meet with some reporters and say goodbye to the people who invited him to speak at Stanford.

I wanted to say hi, so I hopped up onto the stage and walked right up to the room he was in. A guard at the door blocked me from entering, and I thought that I wasn’t going to get to say hi.

But, right then, Steve walked through the door — he was right it front of me! So, I just said “Hey Steve. I designed the shirt you’re wearing — can I get a picture?” It’s true. I designed the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders t-shirt.

Anyway, that’s basically the story. Only a year and a half late! :)

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10 Comments on “OMG, I just met Steve Ballmer!”

  1. 1 Andrei said at 6:35 pm on May 6th, 2009:

    Congratulations and nice picture!!!

  2. 2 Andrei said at 6:36 pm on May 6th, 2009:

    Why did my last post comment show up as a sad face?

  3. 3 erin vierra said at 6:46 pm on May 6th, 2009:

    DAMN Feross you were for real!!! congrats!! sheesh!! you are amazing!

  4. 4 feross said at 9:07 pm on May 6th, 2009:

    Andrei, the image next to your name is automatically generated based on your email address. Yours looks kinda funny!

    The system works using a computer science technique called “hashing” to generate a unique number from your email address. In this case, your hash number is “ea01c8b7bff3a362d70a609c31649da1″. Then it looks at different parts of this number, which correspond to different facial elements. In this way, it can generate a unique face for everyone that visits the site.

    If you don’t like your image, you can change it at http://gravatar.com and it will change it on every site that uses the Gravatar system – I think some big news sites use it too.

  5. 5 feross said at 9:07 pm on May 6th, 2009:

    Thanks Erin!

  6. 6 Queen of England said at 2:52 pm on May 11th, 2009:

    Dang !!

    I can only dream of shaking hands with Steve B.

    Good luck to you. I am waiting till you end up shaking hands with Obama. Send me that picture, I will make it my desktop background.

    Asfand

  7. 7 feross said at 7:57 pm on May 11th, 2009:

    Thank you Asfand! Very nice of you.

    If I ever shake Obama’s hand — which I don’t think will happen anytime soon — I’ll be sure to let you know.

    Thanks again!

    – Feross

  8. 8 Rich said at 6:57 am on May 15th, 2011:

    you should’ve asked him why his browser sucks so bad

  9. 9 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 7:01 pm on May 16th, 2011:

    @Rich, haha. That’s a bit harsh, isn’t it? I’ve actually asked the lead IE developer that question before at a tech talk he gave.

  10. 10 Rajesh Namase said at 10:12 am on November 22nd, 2011:

    What he replied? I don’t like IE browser.

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