Booting Up Baghdad: Tech Execs Take a Tour in Iraq

As the CEO of MeetUp , Scott Heiferman usually spends his days meeting with staff and brainstorming product strategy. But today the 37-year-old New Yorker, wearing a combat helmet and armored vest over a black business suit, is crammed into a battered C-130 transport plane headed for Iraq. Military and diplomatic personnel aboard are warily eyeing him and the others in his party, all similarly attired, as the C-130 begins its steep, corkscrew descent into the Baghdad airport. And Heiferman i

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Booting Up Baghdad: Tech Execs Take a Tour in Iraq