Michael Alexis

Founder & CEO, teambuilding.com · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Alexis is an entrepreneur and former business attorney who serves as the CEO of teambuilding.com, a distributed corporate team-building platform. He is known for scaling Museum Hack and pivoting the company to remote workplace experiences for enterprise clients.

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Insight

Alexis: Company Leaders Must Make Every Single Task Eligible for Delegation

“As the head of the company, literally everything you do should be up. For delegation. And if there's not a current team member that can take it on, it does usually mean hiring or outsourcing or automation or one of the alternatives.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 48:05 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

Insight

Alexis: VR interactions feel far more organic than Zoom calls

“Beyond being on a Zoom call on us, Talking, if we're in VR, it's like we're doing something together. We're talking over the headset in a way that feels very organic and in person.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 1:56 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

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Alexis: TeamBuilding.com gained first client in 24 hours, was profitable month one

“Within 24 hours. We had our first customer even with the. Kind of harsh hit to the previous businesses. We still finished out that month profitably and then grew rapidly from there.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 5:41 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

Disclosure

Alexis: TeamBuilding.com employs around 90 people

“I believe right now the number is 90. We have full-time staff who are the sales team, marketing customer service, et cetera. And then we have all of our event hosts.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 6:41 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

Disclosure

Alexis: TeamBuilding.com scales to nearly 200 staff during Q4 holiday season

“Quarter four is quite busy for us. As companies are not just doing team building, but they're also doing holiday parties, and so we'll bring on seasonal staff, which pushes us up to more like I think it was one 80 last year, or almost 200 even”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 7:04 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

Insight

Alexis: Practicing law is poorly suited for a nomadic lifestyle

“It's very difficult to be a nomadic lawyer because your clients want and often need to see you in person, right? Like you have to be there to sign documents, to witness documents, to have Like frankly, very important conversations.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 8:11 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

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Alexis: teambuilding.com operates independently without executive day-to-day involvement

“We have a fantastic team of smart, hardworking people who are very capable and competent side from us. And so the business continues to run.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 29:06 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

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Reintroducing in-person events doubled TeamBuilding.com's operational complexity

“We've also reintroduced in-person events in the last three months and that has allowed us to continue growth. It is also in some ways doubled the complexity of the business. Like we're running two businesses. One is a virtual business. One is in-person events.”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 46:53 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

Disclosure

Alexis intentionally skips internal social events to give employees breathing room

“I attend some of the team building events and then I intentionally don't attend others. An example of that would be, we have an upcoming company retreat in New York, we're flying everybody in a meeting there. And so there's some of the evening social activitie…”

Michael Alexis Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 54:22 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him	Sep 6, 2022	29m

Michael Alexis

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