Solving the problem of community organization
Today’s guest is a San Francisco entrepreneur who discovered a problem that maybe you have.
I know when I go to conferences, sometimes they want to do add me to a Slack group for everyone at the conference. It’s fun for the first day, and then it becomes a distraction from the other stuff I do in Slack. It doesn’t really work for me. Other times, they create their own app and I forget to go check their app or it’s not written very well.
They’re trying to connect with the people at the event, send updates, last-minute issues or changes, and also allow attendees to get to know each other. Slack doesn’t really work for that. Facebook doesn’t really work for that. There hasn’t really been a product that works. Today’s guest said, “How about if we create something better?” And she did.
Sharon Savariego is the founder of Mobilize, a software that allows communities to get organized. It allows you to reach your community members via email, if that’s how they prefer, text if that’s how they prefer. The whole idea is to make it easy for community managers to grow their communities and community members to participate without a big distraction to their day.
Sharon Savariego is the founder of Mobilize, a software that allows communities to get organized.
Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, all in the tech space, all—at least I am here in San Francisco, but people that are all over the world. Today’s guest is a San Francisco entrepreneur who discovered a problem that maybe you have.
I know when I go to conferences, sometimes what they want to do is add me to a Slack group that they have for everyone at the conference, which is kind of noisy. It’s fun for the first day, and then it becomes a distraction from the other stuff I do in Slack. It doesn’t really work for me. Other times, they create their own app and I forget to go check their app and it’s not really written well, but I get what they’re trying to do.
They’re trying to connect with the people that are coming to the event, send us updates, maybe last-minute issues and changes, and also allow us to get to...
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