A networking framework built on asking what connections people need, then immediately introducing them. The speaker contrasts New York's direct help-seeking culture with Los Angeles's more guarded approach, and emphasizes never leaving a meeting without offering at least one relevant introduction.
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Exactly. If you're in London, you're having a call with them, you go, right, get to the point, make it about them, ask them all the questions like what would they dream to be working, where would they love to be, or, you know, who they love to hire, or whatever it is. More importantly, who have they not got in their network that they would like to have in their network? Show off that you know people. New York is that— in New York particularly is like that. LA is a bit frosty when it's more like, who do you know? In New York, it's how can I help you know someone, right? So the thing that we learned quite early on is to add value as soon as we got somewhere. And we go, oh yeah, you mentioned that you might want to do this one day with your career. Have you spoken to Jenny? She's really good at that. Yeah, cool, I'll you up. So every meeting you have, don't leave without offering at least an introduction, is one of the things that we learned.