Silicon Valley's baby boom

great expectations
Silicon Valley's baby boom

By Owen Thomas, 10:45 AM on Thu Jul 12 2007, 4,212 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

Copy this whole post to another site

cancel

I never intended for the blogger-baby story, which began with the birth of Ollie Kottke to A-list bloggers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan, to become quite such a saga, but news has a way of happening. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are no longer expecting a baby — they have a daughter, Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield, according to fellow Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz. Here's the rundown on the rest of the couples mentioned in yesterday's baby poll, which — well done, readers — you guessed correctly.

Alaina Browne and Anil Dash The foodblogger and Six Apart executive are not pregnant, though Dash has been looking a little chunky.

Heather Powazek Champ and Derek Powazek: Flickr's community manager and the famous Web designer are not pregnant.

Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield: Flickr's cofounders made no secrecy of Fake's pregnancy, which ended yesterday with the safe delivery of a newborn daughter.

Jennifer Granick and Brad Stone: The lawyer and New York Times reporter are expecting, and are telling people about it.

Maryam and Robert Scoble: Would you really expect Robert Scoble, whose blogger wife, Maryam, is pregnant, not to blog about the fact?

Now we all know: Ben Trott proved so irresistably hot that his wife and fellow Six Apart cofounder, Mena, found herself in a family way. Until recently, she'd been trying to keep the fact private.

To the pregnant couples: Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes. To Fake and Butterfield: Mazel tov! To Browne, Dash, and the Powazeks: Get cracking! Valleywag is going to need readers in 2025.
(Photos by Anil Dash, edyson, granick, jacksonwest, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid, and simoncast)

More about Feature

Apple

Stock market's fear: Steve Jobs is dying
Since a scary-skinny Steve Jobs showed up last summer to launch a new iPhone, rumors about the Apple CEO's health have circulated. Now, the cancellation of his annual Macworld speech has spooked Wall Street. Wall Street analysts estimate that Jobs, regarded as a perfectionist product visionary who...

the chart

Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion?
With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago.

Politics

Meg Whitman, homophobe
With her unofficial bid to be California's governor, Meg Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of eBay, is leaning hard to the right. Her support of a gay marriage ban could doom her campaign. Whitman, as we've noted, is an oddity among Silicon Valley Republicans, who tend to worry more about lower ta...

Read More: great expectations, Feature, Heather Powazek Champ, Jennifer Granick, Maryam Scoble, Top, Yahoo, a-list bloggers, alaina browne, Anil Dash, Valleywag, Baby Boom, Ben Trott, brad stone, bradley horowitz, Caterina Fake, Derek Powazek, dynasties, Flickr, heather champ, Jason Kottke, Meg Hourihan, Mena Trott, power couples, Robert Scoble, Six Apart, Stewart Butterfield, Your Privacy Is An Illusion

Loading comments ...