The Gatsby of Silicon Alley: Meet the 27-year-old Google employee who's throwing tech's hottest parties
Despite throwing events attended by thousands, Andrew Yeung has never made a cent off his parties.The sun is setting on a crowd that, even by the standards of a Brooklyn roof party, would be considered eclectic.
Despite that, attention seems to be all Yeung is getting these days. He is the unassuming impresario who's turned his nights-and-weekends hobby of hosting tech meetups into a sprawling events empire, and become a minor Twitter celebrity in the process. He says he was recently"recognized" in an Equinox locker room."It's very strange to meet someone wearing nothing but a towel," he said.
One of the main reasons Yeung doesn't make money off this side hustle is because he can't. The terms of his visa stipulate that he can only derive income from his day job at Google. And the decided lack of a go-to-market strategy may be part of what makes his parties feel so special. People getting together simply for the purpose of having fun does feel strangely radical for the tech industry; an oasis of authenticity in a desert of phoniness.
Of course the events are inevitably transactional on some level. After all, Cole says that the lion's share of her cap table is made up of people she met at Yeung's parties, Glazar found her current job at a party, and Lerner uses the events as testing grounds for his app's new features. The family moved often and Yeung, despite being a natural extrovert, struggled to make friends. Being of an obsessive nature, he poured more than 5,000 hours into Runescape, an online fantasy multiplayer game where he could build a virtual community, one that wouldn't need to be dismantled each time he was uprooted.
So he decided to apply his single-mindedness to the task of making friends. He messaged hundreds of people on Reddit and Fishbowl and Hinge. And in September 2020, he posted that he was hosting a meetup in Central Park. About fifty people showed up. It was the first Andrew Yeung party. The parties have moved out the park and into the rooftop bar, but in a way they retain some of the energy of that first spontaneous park hang.
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