Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Anthony Cortez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
75 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Um, and then also cities will bring us on to do community events and their parks, um, and sponsored events.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Yeah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So, um, I have always had a love for events and my business partner has a background in property management.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So during COVID, we kind of were just like everyone else trying to figure out how can we adapt to this new way of living.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And we found that there was a lot of budgets that weren't being used for resident events because of COVID.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So we kind of thought, how can we come up with a creative way for people to gather outdoors with proper social distancing and use these budgets that people have?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So we kind of came up with the concept.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

It was supposed to be temporary.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And then it snowballs.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And now we're in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, Tampa, now just Miami.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

We're just launched.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Yeah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Since our business is seasonal, we do outdoor events and cash flow can be challenging.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

How can we continue launching new markets ourselves while also attracting aspiring entrepreneurs we can invest in to operate and own a share of each market?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And is this the right model to scale efficiently?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Yeah, that's a great question.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So we're brought on typically by the location.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So typically these locations will plan out their schedules way in advance.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So typically in January or Q1, they're planning their programming for the year.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So we usually already have kind of our set dates.