Wharton Private Equity Conference: Correspondent Needed

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whartonconfernce.jpgTomorrow the Wharton School is holding it’s annual private equity & venture capital conference at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia. We’ve got a press pass to the conference but at the last minute our correspondent fell through. So we’re recruiting from our readership. Who wants to go to the conference? We’ll supply you with a press pass, in exchange you supply us with a few hundred words on what happens. If you’ve got a digital camera and can take some snapshots, that’s a huge bonus.
We’d go ourselves but half of our team has been banned by the bartenders union of Philadelphia from ever entering the city unless we’re willing to pay off our bar tab and leave some sort of damage deposit for injuries inflicted upon the fixtures. And Bess doesn’t do conferences. We need you. Email us at tips@dealbreaker.com with a brief explanation of why you should be DealBreaker’s correspondent at the conference.

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    Comments (11)

    1. 1
      Posted by Anonymous | January 17, 2008 at 5:04 PM

      how about you get out of your chair and go there yourself?

    2. 2
      Posted by Anonymous | January 17, 2008 at 5:58 PM

      I’m no Bethany McLean, but if a free room at the hotel is provided after the event along with free room service all night, free XXX TV, and a couple of “escorts”, I’m might could think up some vebage. You supply the digital camera too. And note paper. And a pen. I might also need a warm moistened towel during the event.

    3. 3
      Posted by johnny208 | January 17, 2008 at 6:24 PM

      It looked like Mike Darda was at a Phillies game. You could also be looking for an 8-figure cougar to call him up and tell him to go. Roar.

    4. 4
      Posted by Rich | January 17, 2008 at 6:36 PM

      How do I convince the director of the treasury (my boss) at my company that this is relevant to my job.

    5. 5
      Posted by Orson Presence | January 17, 2008 at 6:55 PM

      English grammar needed!
      What’s with the “it’s”?

    6. 6
      Posted by San Diego | January 17, 2008 at 7:10 PM

      Who wants to go to Pennsylvania in January? . . . or anytime?

    7. 7
      Posted by investorcluzo | January 17, 2008 at 9:31 PM

      who’s paying for my train ticket because there’s no way I’d drive to philly (and gas is too damn expensive). I’m also going to need beer money, because hanging out with a bunch of monkeys from wharton is enough to make a person want to slit their wrists.

    8. 8
      Posted by Anal_yst | January 17, 2008 at 11:46 PM

      I’d go but as cluzo pointed out gettin there aint cheap (nor is drinkin there, which is a necessity). Also i think after my last run-in with the director of alumni relations @ Wharton they wouldn’t be particularly pleased if I graced them with my (drunken) presence…

    9. 9
      Posted by caveat bettor | January 18, 2008 at 7:15 AM

      I’m on the train heading there right now, still have not cleared the beautiful swampage of NJ.
      I’ll only have a few mins to send in some reports.
      Please give me a hit list of the priority items you’d like to know. And it’s my first time, so be gentle.

    10. 10
      Posted by caveat bettor | January 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM

      David Rubenstein’s time has been hijacked by about 30 Manor Care protestors.
      Rubenstein is engaging the leader speaker (who has a bullhorn caddy) with remarkable poise.

    11. 11
      Posted by caveat bettor | January 18, 2008 at 9:32 AM

      The protestors identified themselves with SEIU, and left after about 20 mins of vocal chanting and bullhorning.
      Conference has resumed.

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