Investor, broken-down GitHub CEO, and all-around Tech Guy&replace; Nat Friedman has posted a shockingly enticing provide on X.
His submit reads, “Want volunteers to simply about my office in Palo Alto this day to originate a 5000 share Lego dwelling. Will present pizza. Need to designate NDA. Please DM.”
Thanks to the investigative reporting of my valorous colleague Kyle, we know that he isn’t kidding.
Legos and pizza lend a hand the promise of a colossal Friday evening if I’m being factual, however the NDA is what gets me.
I’m no factual skilled. Nonetheless I will articulate, with some level of self perception, you shouldn’t scamper around signing NDAs willy-nilly. And but, if I lived in Palo Alto, I’d dispute up to keep that Lego dwelling and designate that NDA, no questions requested — the entice of discovering a secret Silicon Valley Lego cult is too exhausting to resist.
It’s already rather uncommon to be a nicely-identified investor making this provide in public. He has to know that he’s going to fetch swarmed with Stanford sophomores who desire to pitch their startup idea, gorgeous? Nonetheless 5,000-share Lego sets don’t seem like any humorous yarn, and if you have 215,000 followers, why no longer fetch some encourage with an intimidating architectural bid?
That is to bid, I will fetch previous the entire “near enact Legos with me” factor.
Prosperous tech folks need to have stress-free too! Nonetheless the NDA segment ruined me and now I in actuality must are residing the the leisure of my life sparkling that one thing unfamiliar is occurring at this meeting of the minds — one thing so unfamiliar that Friedman would point out the NDA from the fetch-scamper. He might perchance’ve performed it cold and chatted with doable builders earlier than letting them know that they must designate an NDA. Nonetheless he laid it all accessible.
What might perchance very nicely be so secretive about this Lego evening? Does Friedman have fetch entry to to a pair prime-secret Lego sets that it is likely you’ll perchance perchance be ready to only earn by years-long relationships with the company, love a Birkin fetch for nerds?
Or does he simply desire to originate obvious that no one who shows up is going to transfer rogue and justify all individuals the attach his office is? I know that some celebrities require the of us they lollygag around with to designate NDAs, but hear: GitHub is cold and all, but I don’t think Nat Friedman is on the similar stage of reputation as Timothée Chalamet.
Anyway, if anybody in Palo Alto likes Legos and is cold with breaking an NDA to relieve within the lowest-stakes journalism you’ve ever imagined, hit me up.