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Very talented team. Some beautiful projects and very impressive budgets I reckon. I am just as impressed with some of the photos in this thread...

The world is kind of small....

Back a few years ago, during the height of the recession, I attended a college alumni function at Google.

I attended Dartmouth College. I studied engineering and I was also an athlete for all four years.

I turned around in the snack line, and there I encountered a former teammate, a couple of years younger than I. I had not seen him since he graduated in '84. We got caught up very quickly.

Before he told me exactly what he did, he indicated that his business was recession-proof. Then I learned that he was the CEO of a company that provided super high end home audio/automation services, and the Chairman of the Board of CEDIA.

A few minutes more of conversation revealed that quite a few of his clients and those of the firm that employs my wife had a lot of overlap.

One of the long term projects on which both companies worked for years was this one:

https://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2011/03/30/russian-investor-buys-silicon-valley-mansion-for-100-million/

Both before and after the transaction.

The world is small...
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