Events Industry

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Lemkin: Almost everyone in the events industry is terrible
“When you're in tech it's if you're relentless, you don't have to work with mediocre people, but in the events industry, almost everyone's terrible, literally terrible.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 1:12:35 Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Lemkin: Post-COVID event talent decayed, making large events much harder to run
“So it's much harder to do events than it used to be because the infrastructure decayed during COVID and the human infrastructure decayed. You cannot, if you go interview a hundred folks to be your VP of events, you'll be lucky if two can produce a large scale …”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 8:11 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Latka: SaaS Models Struggle in Events Space Due to Episodic Churn
“SaaS is hard to make work in an event space because they start and they stop. So unless someone consistently does events, SaaS models really don't work. It throws your churn all out of whack.”
Nathan Latka Oct 30, 2019 ▶ 9:02 1558 Why This Event Management CEO Believes 25% Of Her $2.5m In Revenue Should Be Professional Services

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