Day 0 / Saturday, 04. June 2022
- Arrival in San Francisco
- Highlights of the day: The guy on the plane playing Solitaire
- Meeting Thommy, a university friend of Jana who works in SF at McKinsey and who organised a studio apartment for us to stay
Day 1 / Sunday, 05. June 2022
- Breakfast in our new hood in Mission
- Caltrain to Mountain View
- Apple Entrepreneur Camp Alumni reception at Alexander’s Steakhouse close to Apple Park
- Inspired by the exchange with other founders/makers: recommending physical activities at desk/chair for 5/10 mins breaks
- We brought and shared tasty German chocolate as a dessert
Day 2 / Monday, 06. June 2022
- The highlight of our trip: WWDC at Apple Park
- Opening and keynote by Tim Cook and Craig Federighi
- State of the Union
- Meeting the Apple Team and getting a tour through AP
- Dinner with selected founders, amongst them two Apple Design Award winners
Read about our WWDC experience here
Day 3 / Tuesday, 07. June 2022
- Back at Apple Park to meet with out Design Partner and Partnership Manager
- Meeting an angel investor in Palo Alto
- Taking Caltrain back to San Fran blogging about our WWDC experience
- We saw a Waymo driverless car
Day 4 / Wednesday, 08. June 2022
- At Bloomberg Technology Summit in SanFran Downtown. Speaker Highlights:
- Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO, Uber
- Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon
- Michelle Bailhe, Partner, Sequoia Capital and Sandhya Venkatachalam, Partner, Khosla Ventures - with whom we had a chat about beams and how we could use Natural Language Processing to help people work better
- At our lunch table we sat with a person each working at Google, Waymo, LinkedIn & Meta
- Attended a Yoga class at Love Story Yoga
- Met an old friend of Mihri who is a former founder of a SaaS product and now works in San Fran at a well-known productivity company.
Day 5 / Thursday, 09. June 2022
- Apple eCamp Alumni call
- Jana met a product guy from Berlin who now moved to San Fran
- Lunch with Jasper, co-founder of Tally and now Strings
- Co-working with Tove (Swedish Crypto expert who Jana knows from Berlin) at Shack15 - a new and beautiful co-working space at the Ferry Building with lots of mingling opportunities
- We went to a DJ pop-up workshop with DJ Angelo and DJ QBert (world’s best DJ in 2010) hosted by Algoriddim, whose founders we got to know at WWDC
- Best burrito of San Fran for dinner
Day 6 / Friday, 10. June 2022
- Meeting with Thi, Marco & Ali who have worked on a similar mission like us at Move37
- David Pichsenmeier, Slack
- Oana from Singalfire
- worked from Shack15 and attended the happy hour networking to chat with entrepreneurs/founders
- dinner at foreign cinema
Day 7 / Saturday, 11. June 2022
- Road trip with Michael (Type Studio), Mike (mem.ai)
- Santa Cruz
- Monterey
Day 8 / Sunday, 12. June 2022
- Yoga at LoveStoryYoga
- Work hard, party hard: Day party at audio
- dive bar
Day 9 / Monday, 13. June 2022
- Zoom: Haystack / Beams
- Christina x beams Internship Interview
- Work from Müesi (not a typo, not muesli)
- Dinner at Chinatown - z & y restaurant, adult fortune cookies
Day 10 / Tuesday, 14. June 2022
- Caltrain to Sunnyvale: Plug and Play June Summit at Plug and Play Tech Center.
- meeting with Amit
- Fingaroo, Tony and Amin
- Peachscore, Payman: early-stage business assessment platform
- Hops, Aamir and Jake: raising series A next year June, focus on growth
- Uizard, Rizwan: freemium templates, #user accounts
- PNP Team: Neda Amit, Tal, Haruka, Phillip Vincent
- Jeff
- Bob Trevelyan
- Companies: Symend, Skan
- Dinner with Karin (former colleague of Mihri) and beers at River Rock Taproom!
Day 11 / Wednesday, 15. June 2022
- In San Mateo
- Meeting Xavi, HR Director at BetterUp
- Meeting Aykut, Founder of MobileAction and Angel Investor
- In the evening meeting Elena and Vio Co-founders of Selftalk and the other founders of their Draper Hero Program Cohort
- Team meeting at midnight (9am Berlin time)
Day 12 / Thursday, 16. June 2022
- Co-working at Shack15
- Meeting Arthur, Senior director at Google and Angel investor
- Checking out Japan Town, eating great Ramen
- Meeting a few people for drinks: Ella, PM at Lattice, Lukas (Veeva) and Christian (Aptos Labs) developers, Valentina Sustainability at Apple
Day 13 / Friday, 17. June 2022
- Sailing with Kadir and Tejas ⛵️
- Met Mike, co-founder of iascend
- Invited everyone we met in SF to hang out at Dolores Park in the evening
Day 14 / Saturday, 18. June 2022
- Last day in SF
- Yoga at LoveStoryYoga
- Street Festival in North Beach, Little Italy
- Meeting Tove and Matthew, walking along Marina, Palace of the Fine Arts, Pacific Heights
- Dinner and drinks with Hannah, Ram (VC Engineer) etc. on Polk Street