Virtual Events
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
the Neon Show 
Top Founders 
How I Built This
6 statements about Virtual Events, every show
Soni: Pivoting from virtual to in-person events was a fatal startup mistake
“What everyone did in response was that, Hey, let's, we were doing virtual events. That market is shrinking. Let's do in-person events, which I think was the fatal mistake that a lot of companies made in this market.”
Ingo turned 200 email invites into 4,000 event attendees
“We launched an event. On virtual events in April, like third, third of last year. And we went, we emailed out, got 200 people. Those 200 people used Ingo and got us another 4000 people to go to our events.”
Filipchuk: Internal corporate events drive far higher engagement than public virtual events
“When you let people who know each other to meet online level of engagement, level of satisfaction is going to be much higher because those are your colleagues and then the corporate culture.”
Hartz: 85% of virtual event ticket buyers knew the creator pre-COVID
“What's interesting is that 85% of consumers who are buying tickets to these virtual events knew the creator prior to COVID.”
Boufarhat: Legacy virtual events have existed 12 years and historically suck
“You know, there's been virtual events have existed for 12 years, kind of always sucks.”