Globally, meetings, incentives, conferences, events, and group travel together represent a 500B+ market all in. Almost every mid-sized or large US company runs some form of in-person event each year, whether that is a retreat, sales kickoff, or team meetup. Since COVID, distributed teams have made these gatherings more important, not less.
Corporate offsites are just our entry point because the pain is clear and budgets are structured. Almost every mid-sized or large company runs in-person events every year, and since COVID those gatherings have become more important for distributed teams.
Long term, we are not limiting this to corporate. The underlying problem is group coordination with real budgets, contracts, and logistics. That applies to associations, communities, weddings, large friend trips, and more. Our ambition is to expand into every type of group travel and event where planning is complex and high stakes.
This drives me nuts. Now that people have figured out the em dash, this is the number one way I spot AI text. Not even opposed to writing with AI, but sometimes it feels like they want us to spend more time reading it than they did writing it.
Was skeptical (especially because it's Meta) until it said it's designed for accessibility. Reminds me of the Xbox accessible controller. A lot of devices designed for accessible end up leading to cool user design discoveries.
The added bummer is that space funding cuts aren't just hurting public projects, they're also killing private companies that rely on the government as a customer.
its fine, with all the new contracts to open private prisons to house "illegals" that we're going to rent out to corporations for pennies on the dollar and weapons contracts so that we can gift israel with bombs to murder Palestinian babies, it should all even out. /s
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