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Vignette Reunion at Parkside
“We had the unfortunate timing to grow at a time when a lot of money was being made,” says Ross Garber about Vignette, the Austin software company he co-founded with Neil Webber. “If I had one wish, it would be to remembered for the incredible time we had together rather than the money.”
Ross Garber, Neil Webber
Vignette was one of Austin’s gold-kissed companies — 10 years or, to calculate it in another way, two tech booms ago. At one point, it planned a multi-tower complex at the same downtown site where multi-tower complexes from a later boom hoped to rise (not yet). Garber and Webber’s company pretty much defined the Internet optimism of the late ’90s in Austin.
Steve Vitale, Anna Cooke, Sally Baskin, Wade Walker
Vignette’s 10-year reunion was a noisy one at the upscale Sixth Street restaurant Parkside. Upstairs, casually but smartly dressed people in their forties — mostly men, but also women — hobnobbed happily.
Greg Hilton, Mike Makuch, Steve Manweller (among the first employees hired at Vignette)
The room that held the bar was way overcrowded, making social reporting a mess. But in the west wing, we could appreciate the buoyant party planning of Courntey Caplan of Caplan Miller Events. She employed Townsley Designs for the decor and furniture — very mod, with bean-bag chairs and tables adorned with radiant “10s” — as will as Ilios Lighting, which provided stunning light screen behind the DJs.
John Tyler, Phil Powers
My hoarse voice — almost of month of cedar fever later — denied me a conversational mode to compete with the nostalgic music, but I was uplifted to run into, for the second or third night this week, effervescent Beth Krauss from the ACVB. You know it’s a party if she’s there.
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