This morning, I had a meeting with someone at University Cafe on University Ave in Palo Alto. Being a little hungry for breakfast, I arrived an hour early to eat before my meeting arrived.
Sitting here in one of the more popular cafes in downtown Palo Alto, I scanned around the room just to check out who was there. It was pretty amusing.
There were the “blues” and the “not-blues”.
The “not-blues” were people who looked to be Palo Alto residents, or those who worked in various businesses based in Palo Alto. They were dressed in a variety of ways, generally in jeans and very casual.
Then there were the “blues”. It was pretty funny. Everybody else here had dark dress pants and a blue collared shirt. It was very obvious that a large population of the venture capitalists also came to University Cafe to have breakfast meetings. Talk about attack of the clones!
You know what – blue does look good. It is a cool color and has a calming effect, more to woo potential entrepreneurs and partners by having that trustworthy effect on people around you (little do they know…ha!). It must be a critical component of the venture capitalist how-to manual, under the chapter entitled “Venture Capitalist Dress Code.”
Among VCs, blue is the new black!