Dan Pitt lives and breathes Silicon Valley. An inveterate advocate of change and progress, he has devoted his career to bringing new technologies to light and getting them in the hands of people they can benefit. With a background rich in both industrial research and academia, Dan has increasingly devoted his attention to startup companies, in Silicon Valley, Australia, Italy, and Canada.
Dan derives great pleasure also from understanding the effects of culture and language on organizational behavior and even the adoption of technology. Often his most valuable contribution is helping startups from other countries understand how Silicon Valley works and take the best attributes home with them.
On the private side, Dan gets carried away by a few favorite passions. He loves cars but rides his bikes (3) way more than he drives his car (which is an odd car anyway). He harbors high enthusiasm for bold red wines, particularly Petite Sirah and Australian Durif, American and Australian Zinfandel, Australian Shiraz, and Alsatian and Australian Riesling. No, not Cabernet, not Chardonnay, not Pinot, not Merlot. He writes a limerick every time he stays overnight somewhere and mails it on a postcard to an old friend who does the same. He thinks he’s written maybe 1100 or 1200 by now. He treats them as an art form. Dan speaks several languages other than English, but only in their native countries and only with those whose command of English is worse than his command of their language. These people are getting harder to find, and Dan mostly travels to Australia these days anyway.
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Dan Pitt lives and breathes Silicon Valley. An inveterate advocate of change and progress, he has devoted his career to bringing new technologies to light and getting them in the hands of people they can benefit. With a background rich in both industrial research and academia, Dan has increasingly devoted his attention to startup companies, in Silicon Valley, Australia, Italy, and Canada.
Dan derives great pleasure also from understanding the effects of culture and language on organizational behavior and even the adoption of technology. Often his most valuable contribution is helping startups from other countries understand how Silicon Valley works and take the best attributes home with them.
On the private side, Dan gets carried away by a few favorite passions. He loves cars but rides his bikes (3) way more than he drives his car (which is an odd car anyway). He harbors high enthusiasm for bold red wines, particularly Petite Sirah and Australian Durif, American and Australian Zinfandel, Australian Shiraz, and Alsatian and Australian Riesling. No, not Cabernet, not Chardonnay, not Pinot, not Merlot. He writes a limerick every time he stays overnight somewhere and mails it on a postcard to an old friend who does the same. He thinks he’s written maybe 1100 or 1200 by now. He treats them as an art form. Dan speaks several languages other than English, but only in their native countries and only with those whose command of English is worse than his command of their language. These people are getting harder to find, and Dan mostly travels to Australia these days anyway.