Silicon Valley Geeks Can Learn From European Geeks…
by Tom Foremski on December 23, 2009 at 4:07 am
Silicon Valley Geeks and Parisian Geeks have a lot in common: lots of passion, great ideas and they speak the lingua franca of “geek.”
But there is an important difference, as Beth Blecherman at Techmamas recently found on a visit to LeWeb:
While Silicon Valley geeks put on a clean tee shirt for tech conferences, European geekstake it up a notch. Here is a random geek waiting in line for LeWeb. I told him I was chronicling European Geek Chic. He looked confused but smiled for the camera. To top it off, he and many other Euro-geeks paired the geek uniform of jeans with a nice pair of (non-sneaker) shoes.
Just to keep up with the style, I put on every black and stylish piece of clothing I had. If I had time, I would of shopped from the assortment of beautiful french scarves to take my outfit up a notch.
Please see the full post, where Beth also looks for European girl geeks, which are even rarer than here:
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