Geeks On Ford Island ...the GOAP adventures with Dave McClure continues!

photo courtesy of Pacific Aviation Musem

A core part of what makes GeeksOnAPlane tours memorable are the access to places we don't often get to see and the shared experiences we don't often have time for in our day to day environments. It kind of takes me back to the days of school field trips where you wake up super excited because you just know it's going to be a cooler day because it's different from every other day.

In less than 5 months, Dave McClure has convinced a group of entrepreneurs and investors to drop their routine in exchange for a bit of trust that he know's what's good for them. Some of these shared experiences off the top of my head:

  • Fast pitches from Japanese startups in a basement bar in Tokyo.
  • A bunch of geeks tweeting and twitpic'ng their way up a climb on the Great Wall of China.
  • After party in Shanghai with Halle Barry and Clive Owens
  • Landing in Shanghai and frantically reserving our Facebook vanity names while waiting for our luggage.
  • Bringing a Silicon Valley voice to the White House to spark immigration reform in support of innovation
  • An action packed schedule via planes, trains and buses in different cities throughout Europe


What you see is an orchestrated series of events planned well in advance. What really takes place in the planning is a chaotic itinerary often thrown together, edited and added to right up to the last minute. GeeksOnAPlane Hawaii is no exception and we've learned to embrace this as part of the DNA of what makes this worth doing. Why? Because trust me. What finally results are all the conversations, connections and friendships formed in between the stuff that's scheduled in, tweeted, blogged, filmed and shared.

So having said that... really appreciated the Pacific Aviation Musem in Pearl Harbor reaching out to us for an insiders tour of their museum at Ford Island. Thanks to the awesome Anne Murata for understanding "geeks on a budget" and inviting us to another opportunity to get together for a shared experience we're looking forward to. I don't know about you, but having cocktails under the wings of a B-25 Bomber after touring a battlefield hangar and stepping off a flight simulator sounds pretty "GOAPy" to me.

Stay tuned!

Update: GOAP Hawaii was awesome. Enough said. See for yourself here.