{"id":2052,"date":"2009-08-04T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2009-08-04T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T21:07:57","slug":"meetupcom-a-chat-with-the-co-founder-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/meetupcom-a-chat-with-the-co-founder-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetup.com &#8211; a chat with the co-founder and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/closingbigger.net\">Shane Gibson<\/a> and I just finished a phone interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Meetup.com\">Meetup.com<\/a> co-founder and CEO Scott Heiferman.  We had a fantastic chat about what Meetup is doing lately, their growth of more than 500,000 users a month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DNlHaUYvNnw\">Scott&#8217;s day at the White House<\/a> with President Obama and what Meetup is all about.  The full interview will be in our (Shane and I) book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociablebook.com\/\">Sociable!<\/a> that is going to be available very soon (final edits are happening now).  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/2009\/08\/04\/meetupcom-a-chat-with-the-co-founder-and-ceo\/picture-largest-meetup-for-realtors-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-largest-meetup-for-realtors-5.png\" alt=\"picture-largest-meetup-for-realtors-5\" title=\"picture-largest-meetup-for-realtors-5\" width=\"560\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-largest-meetup-for-realtors-5.png 560w, https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-largest-meetup-for-realtors-5-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a>Here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubertor.com\">Ubertor<\/a> we have been running meetups for quite some time.  We operate the Real Estate Technology Meetup, the Young Professionals Meetup and co-organize the Sales Performance Meetup with Shane Gibson.  Interesting note, the Real Estate Technology Meetup is the <a href=\"http:\/\/realestateagent.meetup.com\/\">LARGEST<\/a> real estate agent meetup within Meetup.com!  <\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in checking out a Real Estate Technology Meetup?  Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/realestatetech\">Vancouver<\/a>, our friend George O&#8217;Neill is running the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/RETechTo\/\">Toronto<\/a> version, Rodney Bartlett from Reachd runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/wretmeetup\/\">Wichita<\/a> version and we are adding more cities shortly.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/embeddedform?key=0AgVNNiNiIh5ScFl1dHlxOVpUWGhkRlRGN1luREpkTHc\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\">Loading&#8230;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/meetupcom-a-chat-with-the-co-founder-and-ceo\/' data-title='Meetup.com &#8211; a chat with the co-founder and CEO' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/meetupcom-a-chat-with-the-co-founder-and-ceo\/' data-title='Meetup.com &#8211; a chat with the co-founder and CEO' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Gibson and I just finished a phone interview with Meetup.com co-founder and CEO Scott Heiferman. We had a fantastic chat about what Meetup is doing lately, their growth of more than 500,000 users a month, Scott&#8217;s day at the White House with President Obama and what Meetup is all about. 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