The problem is, these things are so self-serving. There's really nothing new they can offer, every startup just wants their own conference.
So they pull friends to come and speak and charge you $100 to advertise their company to you.
So they pull friends to come and speak and charge you $100 to advertise their company to you.
It's true that they are. We tried to find (though we've not gone public about it yet) people to be at DDC that helped inspire us to build Mixpanel in the first place and people who are doing really interesting things with analytics today. We tried hard to focus on the content rather than just the pure celebrity of people at the event. Stay tuned.