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NY Tech Meetup’s rising voice
With 800 people in regular attendance, the Meetup is taking on political issue
By Judith Messina For Crain's New York Business.com | April 18, 2012
Last week an aspiring entrepreneur sent a humble message to the New York Tech Meetup’s listserv: “It will not be appropriate to launch without your blessing or knowledge.”
The email highlights the way the organization that started in 2004 with 30 people in a conference room has become a sort of unofficial ruling body of the New York tech scene. Its monthly gathering, which has grown to about 800 attendees in NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, is the grandmother of all tech networking events. Lately, the organization has shown signs of becoming a political power, the first real one on the New York tech scene.
“There’s a role for something big, something that represents all of New York tech and that speaks with a loud voice,”
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