A first-person reflection (recorded 2025) on how the speaker’s early immersion in the Santa startup community—through an in-person Startup Week and a physical incubator with ~40 companies—created an intense, continuous networking environment. The speaker contrasts that prior era with a post-COVID ‘reset’ toward remote work that has slowed in-person networking dynamics.
Those are really good, good points. It's kind of grounding me, to be honest. Like, I feel like. Because my first embrace into the Santa community was. I think I showed up the first time was during the first Startup Week in person. And there's, like, 10 events that happened over, like, 24 hours. And then the next thing I did was be in a physical incubator with 40 other companies. So about 80 people. Like, I was run. I was just thrown into a networking event for, like, three straight years that didn't stop that Random came in and curated and. And, like, it sped up the networking process, but also just got me ingrained. Like, this is how. This is how it works. And I. I think we're actually in this big reset post Covid remote work, which has slowed that.
