That was really fun. Team GeekWire was excited to be joined by more than 250 of you last night for the GeekWire Meetup at the Hub Seattle in Pioneer Square. The evening featured an insightful and inspiring conversation with Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot, who shared his perspectives and lessons learned from building the company into one of the emerging titans of the region’s tech industry.

A big thanks to everyone who joined us. We’re posting highlights from Chabot’s comments, starting with his thoughts on startups and venture capital. In the meantime, here are a few scenes from the evening in tweets and pictures.

Thanks also to our meetup sponsors, Outlook.com, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Microsoft User Research and Bing for helping to make this event possible.

Someone should nominate Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau, to be a guest investor/mentor on @sharktank #gwmeetup

— Kylie Hansen (@KylieHansen) February 14, 2013

#gwmeetup @tableau CEO Christian Chabot discusses bootstrap culture”When there are unlimited resources, you don’t make good decisions” — Amanda Foltz (@AmandaFoltz) February 14, 2013

“Seattle is the promised land for startups” says @tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot. #gwmeetup #startup

— Josh Lowry (@Josh_Lowry) February 14, 2013

#Gwmeetup Chabot confirms: Seattle is full of talent. We are cool like that

— Susie Rantz (@SusieRants) February 14, 2013

 

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