Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

Revolutionizing the Events Industry Lessons from 100 Interviews

18 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt of a YouTube video by Jason M. Lemkin discussing challenges in staffing and scaling events. Lemkin describes interviewing 100 people, difficulty finding ambitious events professionals, the organization eventually functioning after a co-SVP named Amelia took over during COVID, and mentions large-scale events in San Francisco with roughly 12–13,000 attendees.

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100 people

Amelia

About 12,000–13,000 people

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And it's like, oh, you're. Well, it's 04, 403.6 months. I got no one to help. I start interviewing everyone on the planet. I've never met a less ambitious industry than events professionals. I interviewed 100 people. I've never, I've never met less ambitious people. And every year, until we kind of have a co SVP Amelia, that runs things now, until she took over, which was really during COVID it never functioned. Each year it was so hard to find anyone good. Then there's like these agencies that help you produce these mass scale events. I mean, we have 12, 13,000 people in SF.