Category Archives: FON

Por lo visto, mientras que yo esté en la tercera planta redactando contratos y revisando todo lo escrito (y equivocándome por todas partes), en el imperio de la planta cero los Hombres de Negro lo están pasando como si fuera otra galaxia. Este video da fé a ello y quedará archivado en la historia de FON. ¡Gracias, chicos!

Japan’s BlogTV came to Madrid to spend some time with FON and to celebrate our FON One Year Anniversary Party. They came with members of our FON Japan team including Nina and Joi Ito (a FON advisor in Japan). In these videos, you get to see Joi Ito in different meetings in Madrid with Martin, Alex, many different people from FON’s Madrid office, at the FON Party, and with my friend, Anil Mello from MobuzzTV.

In a previous post, I mentioned how on February 6, 2007, FON celebrated its first anniversary with a big party at the Teatro Lara in Madrid, and I included two videos of speeches from the event. I also lamented about how my particular role in the party had still not been uploaded. Well, here is what appears to be the final video. Unfortunately, it only includes the very tail end of my speech where I come off as even dorkier than usual and am robbed of my undeserved protaganism. Fortunately, the video shows people getting down and jiggy, as well as the Spoof Video.

. . . Xabi y el Sueco Ibérico dedicándose a fonear a España. Son muy diferentes pero tienen la misma misión.

Here are two more videos from FON’s First Anniversary Party. The first one is Antonio Saez, General Manager of FON Spain. The second one is Martin Varsavsky, the CEO and Founder of FON. As I have mentioned, I was in charge of moderating. I first introduced Antonio, and after Antonio’s speech, I then spoke and presented the FON employee’s Spoof Video. Then Ola (the Swedish country manager) introduced Martin, and Antonio and I ended by giving away Skype Phones.

For the time being, my portions of the evening have not yet been published by Vpod.tv. Let’s hope I am not being censored. I do believe, though, that they will in fact upload my part and scenes from the rest of the event as well.

On Tuesday night, FON celebrated its First Year Anniversary at the Teatro Lara in Madrid. This is a spoof video that some of us employees made. This video was produced by Jorge, Elena and Iurgi and filmed and edited by Vpod.tv. Thanks to Martin’s great sense of humor, none of us lost our jobs, especially me who had the arduous role of imitating him.

Hopefully soon we’ll have the video of my moderating fiasco.

Hace ya un año desde aquel famoso fin de semana que pasamos de camping en Alcobendas. Fueron tres noches que pasamos hasta las 5 y pico de la mañana en el salón de reuniones de las oficinas de FON para preparar el lanzamiento de nuestra página web y anunciar que FON había recibido unos 18€ milliones de Google, Skype, Index Ventures y Sequoia Capital.

En aquel finde histórico, aún éramos muy pocos: Diego C, Berga, Cobra, Mayte, Guillermo, Joan, Teo, Iurgi y yo. El domingo vinieron a echarnos una mano Martha, los dos Antonios, y Karissa. ¡Que tiempos aquellos! Ahora somos casi 100 empleados en total.

Esta noche hay una fiesta en el Teatro Lara para celebrar el aniversario, y algunos de nosotros los celebraremos de forma muy especial, recordando aquella tienda de campamento en Alcobendas y las siestas echadas de bajo de la mesa de reuniones.