01:08:56 · Mati Staniszewski
[01:08:56] S1: At the time, I didn't know how to like what's the purpose of the conference. I think it was the lack of preparedness on my side where I was going into the conference and just like flowing through it. And I think it was a kind of terrible thing. It's like you go there, you have the sessions and some of them are of course good, but most of them are not relevant to you or your business or they are the circus part that you mentioned that like, you know, you feel you are doing something important. It's completely unimportant. That's kind of, you know, then I didn't do any events. Then I realized that it's like, actually, you can do them well. You do need to prepare. You need to prearrange a lot of the one on ones you want to do during the conference. Everybody is there at that time. You don't want to do too many of them because a lot of the... There's, like, some repeating crowd across those events. So you want to do the ones which is kind of different. And of course, you want to be pretty explicit to the other side too, that they know what they are like, you know, that you are not you are pitching them and they are relaxing. That's like about resting for disaster. But many people want that too. They are there to do exactly the same thing, do business and figure it out. So now it works really well for me. Like I do good prep. We prearrange a lot of time. I never go and like try to be there for just the sessions or just the content or when. Of course, I speak frequently on those conferences. But the main thing is trying to grab time with the people that are there and that has been working really well.
01:10:15 · David Senra, Mati Staniszewski
[01:10:15] S0: Are you still drinking? [01:10:16] S1: No, on the weddings, but apart from that it's... [01:10:19] S0: Every time I go to Europe I have the same thought when I get back, I should drink more. Have so much fun. It's like they just know how to have fun. [01:10:28] S1: There are social circumstances where I would drink. They are just so infrequent now that that there's... That I wouldn't do it. [01:10:35] S0: Okay. Next time we are at one of these rare conferences together, let's make sure we have a drink. Alright? Deal? [01:10:40] S1: Deal. Deal. [01:10:41] S0: Alright, Thanks for giving us. Very appreciate [01:10:43] S1: your thoughts. [01:10:44] S0: I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please remember to subscribe wherever you're listening and leave a review, and make sure you listen to my other podcast founders. For almost a decade, I've obsessively read over 400 biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs, searching for ideas that you can use in your work. Most of the guests you hear on this show first found me through founders.