The Importance of Community Needs and Networking in Large Cities

22 Feb 2025

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A short excerpt from a YouTube discussion about community engagement and networking in a large city. The speaker urges people to communicate their needs, notes the geographic spread of events (e.g., a North County founders mixer requiring long drives), and calls for more localized gatherings—especially in the city’s south—to improve accessibility. The speaker acknowledges growth in activity over the past two years but argues it's still insufficient.

Yeah, I mean, to your. To your point, too. I mean, if you don't tell people about your needs, like, no one's going to know about them or be able to help you. So that's part of the reason to kind of go out a bit more, I would say. Kind of one of the drawbacks I think about a lot is one of the drawbacks of the social coyotes. It looks like there's a lot going on all the time, and there is, but I think what we forget is the city is really big. And like Neil touched on in the beginning, it's like the north county founders mixer is in North County. You know, it's like I drive for an hour sometimes in traffic to get there. Would be so cool to have one in the south. So the point is that it may feel like we have some form of density here, and we, we. We do, and we're getting there, and it seems like there's a lot more stuff happening than when, you know, I started doing this almost two years ago. But that doesn't mean that we're anywhere near the point where we actually have enough stuff going on. So I.