I attended this year’s Startup School – and all eight of the talks were really awesome. I got to hang out with a ton of people who had either already started their companies, or people that were looking to do so. The energy and the buzz was fantastic. Most importantly, however, I got to see three of my heroes –

Paul Graham – talking about the idea of being a benevolent startup.

Jeff Bezos – talking about Amazon Web Services as a way forward for startups.

Peter Norvig – talking about extracting data from the web, and leveraging it in startups.