This morning, I had a meeting with someone at University Cafe on University Ave in Palo Alto. Being a little hungry for breakfast, I arrived an hour early to eat before my meeting arrived.
Sitting here in one of the more popular cafes in downtown Palo Alto, I scanned around the room just to check out who was there. It was pretty amusing.
There were the "blues" and the "not-blues".
The "not-blues" were people who looked to be Palo Alto residents, or those who worked in various businesses based in Palo Alto. They were dressed in a variety of ways, generally in jeans and very casual.
Then there were the "blues". It was pretty funny. Everybody else here had dark dress pants and a blue collared shirt. It was very obvious that a large population of the venture capitalists also came to University Cafe to have breakfast meetings. Talk about attack of the clones!
You know what - blue does look good. It is a cool color and has a calming effect, more to woo potential entrepreneurs and partners by having that trustworthy effect on people around you (little do they know...ha!). It must be a critical component of the venture capitalist how-to manual, under the chapter entitled "Venture Capitalist Dress Code."
Among VCs, blue is the new black!
hi dave;
i had a similar experience a few weeks ago, when i dropped by palo alto for an appointment. strolling down the majestic university avenue and sipping some latte at the starbuck enabled me to observe the pattern you just discussed.
great commentary on the changing faces of today's business in palo alto.