Investor, former GitHub CEO, and throughout Tech Guy™ Nat Friedman has posted a unusually engaging provide on X.
His submit reads, “Need volunteers to come back to my workplace in Palo Alto as we speak to assemble a 5000 piece Lego set. Will present pizza. Have to signal NDA. Please DM.”
Thanks to the investigative reporting of my intrepid colleague Kyle, we all know that he isn’t kidding.
Legos and pizza maintain the promise of a fantastic Friday night time if I’m being trustworthy, however the NDA is what will get me.
I’m no authorized skilled. But I can state, with a point of confidence, you shouldn’t go round signing NDAs willy-nilly. And but, if I lived in Palo Alto, I’d present as much as construct this Lego set and signal that NDA, no questions requested — the lure of discovering a secret Silicon Valley Lego cult is simply too onerous to withstand.
It’s already slightly unusual to be a well known investor making this provide in public. He has to know that he’s going to get swarmed with Stanford sophomores who need to pitch their startup thought, proper? But 5,000-piece Lego units are not any joke, and you probably have 215,000 followers, why not get some assist with an intimidating architectural problem?
That is to say, I can get previous the entire “come do Legos with me” factor.
Wealthy tech people need to have enjoyable too! But the NDA half ruined me and now I’ve to dwell the remainder of my life figuring out that one thing bizarre is happening at this assembly of the minds — one thing so bizarre that Friedman would point out the NDA from the get-go. He might’ve performed it cool and chatted with potential builders earlier than letting them know that they must signal an NDA. But he laid all of it on the market.
What may very well be so secretive about this Lego night time? Does Friedman have entry to some top-secret Lego units which you can solely purchase by means of years-long relationships with the corporate, like a Birkin bag for nerds?
Or does he simply need to guarantee that nobody who exhibits up goes to go rogue and inform everybody the place his workplace is? I do know that some celebrities require the folks they hang around with to signal NDAs, however pay attention: GitHub is cool and all, however I don’t assume Nat Friedman is on the identical stage of fame as Timothée Chalamet.
Anyway, if anybody in Palo Alto likes Legos and is cool with breaking an NDA to help within the lowest-stakes journalism you’ve ever imagined, hit me up.
