Today I got to shadow Dave Cree, the Head of Business Development and 3rd-Party partnerships. Today was made up of three meetings, the second of which was with a company with which I was actually familiar! It was SweetLabs, who is assisting Lenovo in the development of a product, and who also created and sold the Windows 8 Start Menu replacement Pokki, which I still have on my computer even now! We got to discuss a lot about what we can improve about the product with which they are assisting, and how we can better format the product layout, as well as how it can be better for the end consumer. During this meeting, we had Smokey’s Barbecue, and a really great conversation with a lot of good ideas being listened to and heard, as a meeting should be.
One of the guys in the meeting was from England, and he had to ask what cobbler was when someone pointed it out on the buffet line. After the meeting, Dave and I drove over (in his Acura NDX, pictures included) to Building 8 and attended a meeting with a company called Nebbiolo Technologies, and I got to meet a legendary name in the IoT (Internet of Things) industry, Flavio Bonomi, and I even got to shake his hand
and hear him give a presentation about his company!