Fantastic Founders

"It's like 1999 all over again in here... Except that I don't recognize any of the faces." New York Insider overheard this baffled comment in the Hearst Tower last evening, on our way to the pre-summer cocktail party for the Founder's Club, the periodic gathering of Silicon Alley's most enterprising personalities. The speaker should be forgiven for feeling déjà vu about the pre-bubble-burst Internet era. However, this, as we all know, is the age of Web 2.0 and happy (if slightly less heady) days are here again. Somewhat ironically, get-togethers of the Founders Club have taken place in some of the most iconic halls of old media—from the set of Saturday Night Live to the studios of Good Morning America. Last night's event, held at the Hearst Tower, home of magazines from Esquire to Town & Country, was no exception. Still, by the end of the night, the consensus in the room was that the new media types are the ones really know how to have a good time.