Today’s open office hours at Corgi Café was really interesting.
Several of the people were not from the United States and were here for two weeks and stopped by because it was an open invitation.
In from China, Sweden, Belgium, France, South Korea.
Several of them had some sort of material progress of a company, raised two to $10 million, had thousands or tens of thousands of users.
I asked each what was the most important thing they hoped to accomplish while in San Francisco.
Well, there were lots of things around networking, fundraising, learning new insights. Not one said they were meeting with SF-based users in person.
And each took some significant convincing that this was actually critically important.
I’m gonna have to really think on this one. Because it was pretty surprising.
I can’t imagine that meeting your users in person is a particularly American or even San Francisco centric practice. I assumed this was obvious best practice.
Can anyone shed some light here?