Business & Tech

Geeks Swarm !SXSW Event, Fail at Pi Contest

Palo Alto resident Manu Kumar could barely find a venue large enough to accommodate his !SXSW event.

More than 100 geeks, CEOs, venture capitalists and other tech professionals swarmed Monday night to celebrate Pi Day and do some outside-of-Austin networking.

Organized by investor Manu Kumar, CEO of Palo Alto-based K9 Ventures, the event, "!SXSW"—that's geek for "not South by Southwest"—was a boisterous mixer, and Kumar insists that at least one person at the event should have landed a new job because of it.

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