When organizing community meetups, you'll face people with conflicting needs: some want business insights and networking, others just want to hang out and connect. The speaker learned from Boulder meetups that trying to satisfy everyone means respecting that different people are at different stages and want different things.
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Can you give an example of something where like maybe like you guys thought you were going to do it and then someone else was one of those people who were like, nope. Good question. Obviously we get excited about doing things like, oh, let's not do content at all at any of the events, right? That's how people really want it. Or doing the small little things that the diversity is huge. So, you know, we had heard like these stats where we've already done a bunch of these little like meetings in Boulder that are very informal, more geared towards just business. There's some people who love that and there's some people who just want to stay up and party and talk about life. And so, but sometimes we get our priorities of what we want to spend our time doing. So we have to remember that there's pieces of this that have been built. Everybody— we need to respect everybody's thing for it. Some people are in different stages where they really want to be here to learn and connect on the business side. Some people are more here to sense-make about life, and we gotta respect not taking any of those things away.