A 2006 Aspen think weekend with no small talk or networking

A founder put 35 of the smartest people he knew in a room in Aspen in 2006. Mark Pincus (@markpinc) called it think weekend. Zuckerberg stayed up all night on Diet Cokes and M&M's, working. Peter Thiel gave a talk on the housing bubble, two years too early. The rule: no small talk, and nobody there to network. "No one was trying to sell anything to anyone." The whole room asked him to run it every year. He said "nah" and ran it once.