5 ms·

I hope this doesn't torpedo meetup.com. They aren't the best for sure, but they are the right mix between old school mailman list and facebook.

smacktoward 7y ago
It would be a sad irony if it did. When Meetup first popped back in the mid-2000s, they very deliberately turned away from the "blitzscaling" model in favor of building a sustainable business. For them to end up as collateral damage of someone else's blitzscaling train wreck fifteen years later would show that God has a dark sense of humor.
deleted 7y ago
[deleted]
ellard 7y ago
How would WeWork going under torpedo meetup.com? I'm not super familiar with their relationship with each other. Some quick Googling shows that they do have one partnership for a product related to booking a space for use with a meetup, but I don't know if MeetUp earns like a huge portion of their revenue off that. Edit: Just found out that Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. This makes sense to me now.
- erichurkman 7y ago
  A lot of meetups are held in WeWork spaces, especially smaller ones that are too small or niche to have a strong corporate backer.
  - ellard 7y ago
    I also just realized that WeWork owns Meetup.com. I don't know how I missed that.
Glibaudio 7y ago
Agreed. MeetUp is cool, needs to live. Context; WeWork bought Meetup in 2017; https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-buys-meetup-for-200-million-2017-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-buys-meetup-for-200-m... Hopefully want the team at Instapaper/Pinterest did will become more common. Wherein failed integrations will be allowed to go back free and pursue their original potential. I think this is a very positive pattern. https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-buys-itself-back-pinterest/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-buys-itself-b...
tragic 7y ago
If it's a sustainable business, I would guess it would be sold off to pay creditors in the event of a wework bankruptcy. So will probably be all right (depending on the buyer, of course).
JansjoFromIkea 7y ago
Is meetup deliberately a bit crappy and limited or something? The limitations of their search features continues to baffle me. _something_ to allow a search for particular times of the day would be great, or the ability to zone in on a smaller area than "5 miles from London". If you want to browse further than My Meetups and Recommended you've to wade through so many 2 person attending afternoon meetups, it's incredibly easy to scroll into the next day and not realise... just all around terrible.

smacktoward 7y ago

It would be a sad irony if it did. When Meetup first popped back in the mid-2000s, they very deliberately turned away from the "blitzscaling" model in favor of building a sustainable business. For them to end up as collateral damage of someone else's blitzscaling train wreck fifteen years later would show that God has a dark sense of humor.

deleted 7y ago

[deleted]

ellard 7y ago

How would WeWork going under torpedo meetup.com? I'm not super familiar with their relationship with each other. Some quick Googling shows that they do have one partnership for a product related to booking a space for use with a meetup, but I don't know if MeetUp earns like a huge portion of their revenue off that. Edit: Just found out that Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. This makes sense to me now.

erichurkman 7y ago
A lot of meetups are held in WeWork spaces, especially smaller ones that are too small or niche to have a strong corporate backer.
- ellard 7y ago
  I also just realized that WeWork owns Meetup.com. I don't know how I missed that.

Glibaudio 7y ago

Agreed. MeetUp is cool, needs to live. Context; WeWork bought Meetup in 2017; https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-buys-meetup-for-200-million-2017-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-buys-meetup-for-200-m... Hopefully want the team at Instapaper/Pinterest did will become more common. Wherein failed integrations will be allowed to go back free and pursue their original potential. I think this is a very positive pattern. https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-buys-itself-back-pinterest/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-buys-itself-b...

tragic 7y ago

If it's a sustainable business, I would guess it would be sold off to pay creditors in the event of a wework bankruptcy. So will probably be all right (depending on the buyer, of course).

JansjoFromIkea 7y ago

Is meetup deliberately a bit crappy and limited or something? The limitations of their search features continues to baffle me. _something_ to allow a search for particular times of the day would be great, or the ability to zone in on a smaller area than "5 miles from London". If you want to browse further than My Meetups and Recommended you've to wade through so many 2 person attending afternoon meetups, it's incredibly easy to scroll into the next day and not realise... just all around terrible.