Team events

We had a team event yesterday in Amsterdam for the first time since the pandemic began. It was amazing to meet everyone in person. Some people had joined the company during the pandemic and we have been working together for over a year and had never met in person.

There’s nothing that replaces in person interaction. I wrote a bit about business travel a couple weeks ago where I predicted that business travel will come back - not necessarily for meetings/sales calls, but for more frequent all-hands or team gatherings as remote teams look to meet in person again.

At the team event, we did a lot of brainstorming as a company on how we can continue to bridge the gap between our US and Amsterdam teams. Pretty much everyone said it’s vital for the entire team to meet in person and most believe that we should be spending time in each other’s offices more often.

I’m really looking forward to spending more time in Amsterdam and having visitors to San Francisco (eventually).