– Doug McConnell

Today Carl Bidleman, Jim Wirth and I are cruising down from Marin County to the beautiful Peninsula town of Woodside. Woodside was long a warm-weather escape for San Francisco’s early barons of industry and a lovely leafy horse town. These days, while the horses and old-money barons remain, Woodside has become home to more new billionaires per capita than probably any other town in the world. Silicon Valley and the venture capitalists of Sand Hill Road are right nearby. One of the prime gathering spots for high-tech entrepreneurs (as well as the rest of us) is Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside owned, operated, crafted and conducted by its Impresario-in-Chief, Jamis MacNiven and his wonderful wife, Margaret.

Jamis MacNiven, Roy & Trigger

Visit Buck’s online and in person. You’ll enjoy the whimsy and the creativity, not to mention the food and the company. We’ll include some pictures tomorrow after we lunch with Jamis and do a little business. He’s one of our OpenRoad.TV advisors. But knowing Jamis and us, we’ll do very little business and a lot of story telling and guffawing.

Over the years, we’ve done quite a few stories in and around Woodside, Palo Alto and Silicon Valley. One of our stories, (more…)