A short spoken piece (YouTube talk) about empowering others to start and run community tech events. The speaker recounts asking for event co‑founders, telling a client (Jed) to "build it" for a local 4S tech meetup, and describes how the meetup continued (18–24 months later) with the organizer taking it on and expanding to Start a Beach. Emphasis is on enabling others to 'do the thing' and on listening to customers.
I'm always looking for kind of event co founders, if you will, that I can start it and then they can take it and run with. Run with it. A good story of that is actually the 4S tech meetup that started. He was actually a client of mine at my first, my first or second startup way back in the day, Jed. And he's like, hey, I live in 4s. All the events are really far. How do we do an event here? I'm like, how do you do an event here? He's like, what do you mean? Like, well, if you build it, they will come. Like, just pick a day and say you're going to be here. And I think it's like 18 months or 24 months now and he has officially moved over, I think, to start a beach as well. So, yeah, I love the empowerment you gave there of just like do the thing and, and listen to your customer, you know, in that regard.
