Who is Sylvia?
Fast Company, April, 2007 by Alan Deutschman
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A lot of Silicon Valley insiders first met Sylvia Paull in the late 1980s, when as the marketer for a software startup, she threw some of the hottest parties at computer-industry conventions such as Comdex and Macworld. Bill Gates came. So did nerd goddess Esther Dyson and Grateful Dead lyricist turned cyberactivist John Perry Barlow. Paull began drawing an eclectic mix of the brilliant, the influential, and the ambitious to soirees at her home in the Berkeley hills.
She eventually turned the informal gatherings into the monthly Cybersalon, with discussions on new directions in technology and the ethical questions they raised. One night, a musician started a fistfight during a debate about how artists should be...
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