Chin wag with Mike Letschin
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s event say it's in five cities challenges that's more expensive for vendors yes it is um you do so it's smaller trade shows floors potentially it's local you hopefully you can get your sales team to maybe do it almost like vmug size at that point larger v mugs maybe the size of what the user counts at times have been some of the smaller user accounts maybe what it is in each city and if you have six of those but maybe the keynotes are telecast or there are certain sessions that you walk in i mean in all reality they've done it at other re invent a couple years ago uh when i was there had the their overflow was set up like a silent disco yes i mean i remember you're walking and you're watching it there's like four screens or maybe it was even more than that maybe it was like six or eight and you tuned the channel to the to the session you wanted to watch right so it was the same as sitting at home doing it at that point on it so but could they do that at the local sites so real estate a company could put on seven sessions going on at the same time maybe one or two live maybe your city has one live but if you've got a studio or a place to do the recordings or that they're simulcasting them from those locations so you have your choice you sit there and watch the guy local or you switch over and you toss a headset on and you watch the guy in seattle that's for saying so i think they could do that and get smaller groups it's just it's a change of pace to do it and i don't know whether people are ready for that either yet yeah we're we're uh we're targeting vmworld it's in october and i had this idea last year and i didn't execute upon it because uh i put out kind of a poll or survey and people weren't ready we weren't where we're at today where even the small groups especially inside people were comfortable meeting together i think people are now more comfortable meeting together in smaller groups so we're going to do kind of a augmentation to vmworld where we're going to have some people local in chicago or wherever we're at and then we're going to we're just gonna put on our own little mini conference because the i think the most powerful growth opportunities in my career has have happened at conferences in the hallway tracks i know people who've gotten jobs i've gotten opportunities i think the only reason i was on the cube is because i ran into stu at uh at vmworld or some other event and that just would not you know it would have been a stu's mind to reach out to keith but it was him physically seeing me oh yeah that's right keith i meant to reach out to him to him see if he was interested in hosting the cube right yeah i think we we definitely get those um heck some of the the different the people we've i've met a lot you mentioned kind of the jeep community as we started on and most of those guys that's how i know them i mean i i've gotten to the point where there's friends that from all sorts other companies i've vacationed with them at times like we've done trips with that my wife knows them and their family own it um i know in next week and it's next week i'm going to see uh tim and jody antowitz are coming into town so i'll see them but real estate i wouldn't have known tim i mean he was he's was it simplivity was it hpe would would i've known him necessarily if it wasn't for a trade show probably not so we uh uh we went to puma uh schmidt's house we went to uh luigi danaco's house we went to uh we'll meet a couple of people here locally the point is that to your point a lot of our extended friends are in this community so when i pitched this idea to melissa and melissa fished this idea to me we're both like yeah let's go out and let's see our friends because we haven't seen seen them in over a year and it's not just the professional relationships it's the personal relationship that you develop i'm a little bit bummed that so many jeep people in our community because my wife really wants to jeep and after seeing luigi's jeep and now i'm seeing your jeans i mean you could have got a gladiator to tell this thing with i'm just saying that would be stretch i don't think that's still stretching yeah probably but she she did that i mean the gladiator do i think 6 500 pounds this is 7 500.
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