Name dropping that will impress no one

I met Tim Westergren today. He's the main founder of Pandora, the very cool outgrowth of the Music Genome Project. Good dude, good product, probably a good company (too early to say for certain, but I'm not alone in being optimistic about it). Check it out.
This bit of honest pretention brought to you by this excellent short film, Truth in Advertising (NSFW).