Shreya Murthy

I have always been a party girl.

That was a big part of college for me.

I was in a sorority.

I paid probably as much attention to my social life as I did to academics.

Right.

And what I learned from that was, yes, obviously parties are fun.

They are fundamentally about entertainment and having a good time.

But they also provide this really important engine of building community.

They're an authentic way to meet new people and meet people who aren't technically strangers but are actually friends of friends or you have some preexisting social connection.

And then they're also a way to grow closer to weak connections that you do have.

So moving beyond just having a couple really close friends to having a much wider circle of people that you're somewhat close to, parties are a great engine for making that happen.

And so I thought, if we can just make it way easier to plan parties, then we can unlock the

this really important engine of real-world social connection in people's lives.

And it's been so cool to see that that's absolutely how it's played out.

I think absolutely.

It's so, if you think about the history of socializing and entertainment, they've always kind of been entwined.

Before we had screens, the way that we would connect with, the way that we would entertain ourselves is by connecting with other people.

We used to have social clubs.

We used to go out to ballrooms and go dancing together.

We would go to the opera and