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brunchwork at home — Modern business education, because higher ed is broken.
We’re reinventing business education. Our first digital product is brunchwork at home - interactive business workshops:
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📝 Actionable lessons from top biz leaders
💡 Pitch ideas, get feedback
🌐 Real connections w/ smart peers and experts
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@nihalmehta Thank you Nihal for your support & mentoring our community over the years! I heard great feedback about your "at home" session.
I've participated in two brunchwork events this spring/summer and I really want to emphasize the fact that I actively participated. There have been so many attempts at virtual learning and networking and events often are one-way and just background noise. With brunchwork, the speakers are top-notch and engaging and the breakout rooms are thoughtfully facilitated. Excited to see where Paulina and team take this product and highly recommend!
@dabblehq Thank you so much, Jemal!! The interactive piece of brunchwork at home is really important! So happy you enjoyed your time and hope to see you again soon. :)
Attended the virtual Brunchwork featuring Barstool CEO Erika Nardini a few weeks ago. Great interview with a good q&a at the end. Lot's of useful insights shared by Erika. Will definitely be attending future virtual/live Brunchworks.
Brunchwork has a great list of people who are both high level and accessible/open to conversations.
I have always enjoyed the in person groups and am sure the online will be great as well.
@mogulazam Abid, it's been such a pleasure getting to know you over the years! I will catch you soon :)
@paulina_karpis is awesome! I have been a member of Brunchwork for 2 years and have enjoyed attending both in-person and virtual events. All the guest speakers are world class and very generous with their knowledge! Looking forward to my next virtual ,non-webinar interactive event at Brunchwork.
@msirina Irina, Thank you - you are awesome! Thanks for always bringing your smart questions and insights to brunchwork. See you tomorrow :)
Excited to see this launch! I've always enjoyed coming to and speaking at the Brunchwork IRL events!
I've attended both in-person and virtual Brunchwork events over the last few years, and I've enjoyed and learned from every event I've attended! Not only do you get to hear from and speak to accomplished speakers, but the events emphasize allow you to interact with the broader community in both workshops and casual settings. Can't wait for the next event!
@wyw003 So glad to hear you enjoyed both the in-person and virtual events, William! What event will we see you at next? :)
As a brunchwork attendee - I found the speakers to be on par with those your would find at a (much more expensive) industry, investor or vendor conference. The format encouraged participation and engagement. Applying these core principles should result in a very valuable learning experience, on par with some of the best MBAs in the world and with fewer of the disadvantages, including cost, co-location and technical coursework in unrelated fields. I look forward to hearing about what brunchwork at home alumni accomplish in the next 5-10 years, which is likely the ultimate proof of the value of this program.
I’ve been to many in person Brunchworks, and am always extremely impressed by the caliber of speakers and fellow learners. This new chapter of Brunchwork is so exciting - congrats on an amazing expansion!
I'm a bit confused at face value. One headline suggests you'll get the benefits from a formal business education, another suggests business training with business leaders, another pointing towards conferencing with "business leaders" for outsourced consulting. What exactly is this? All three areas are of personal interest to me (in producing/consuming education products), yet it just seems like an opaque funnel towards executive training. What value in discrediting MBA programs if those results are not articulated to target users (even though I agree MBA's are of low value and higher education turned into a racket)?
Furthermore, if problem-posed with the notion that education is never politically neutral and designed to oppress or liberate others, who exactly is this education product for if it doesn't advertise worker education, unionization strategies, and workplace democracy?
Hunters & Makers: Two insightful articles that illuminate these points clearly:
David Graeber "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs"
https://www.strike.coop/bullshit...
Bob Black "The Abolition of Work"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/...
@ravi_bajnath Ravi, Thanks for your questions! We're building a new category of business education. We call it co-learning. That's. why it's hard to put us in a traditional box. I will add your two articles to my weekend reading. I invite you to meet our team at 3pm EST today -happy to discuss further there. Or of course, I invite you try one of our workshops. It's the best way to see if we're a fit for you.
@timsaval Thanks Tim! Loved having part of the community from the very early days :)
Went to quite a few of these as I was starting my first business to network and learn. Super high quality lineup of professionals, business leaders, and mentors. Would recommend for aspiring entrepreneurs, professionals looking for an edge, and people trying to make new & interesting friends.
Love Brunchwork events and how the tweaked during the pandemic and excited to see more!
The idea sounds great, but their platform and service are terrible. A few thoughts:
- The pricing structure is unclear, and they don't communicate it until you ask.
- I signed up and received a welcome email, but my login only came hours later
- I was unable to watch one of the events because they didn't send me the link
- They sent an email with the wrong time for one of their events, leading me to join an hour later and miss it
- The process seems overcomplicated. Even as a member, you need to wait for them to send you a Zoom link. Once you try to join the Zoom link, they have to approve you.
- The website UX is also awful.
- I canceled my membership and still get emails
- I did not participate in one of their events and they tagged me on it on LinkedIn as if I had participated, and there's no option to untag yourself. I was also not consulted if they could tag me. Given that a lot of people could use this for networking, that felt a little invasive for me.
Anyway, great idea, but it's just not there yet.
@carolnogueira Carol, As I understand from our prior communication, your main criticism of brunchwork stems from finding 2 typos on our platform. You have *not* participated in a single brunchwork event. We promptly cancelled the membership that you *never* started, as soon as you said brunchwork wasn't for you.
I thanked you for your feedback multiple times in private, and I am thanking you again now.
* Every link you requested was sent to you. We have the email receipts.
* Our content newsletter has an unsubscribe button.
* Prices are listed on our website.
* I personally apologized to you on the timing issue (PST vs. PDT typo in 1 email) after you reached out to me about it on LinkedIn. I explained to you that we had a *last minute, overnight* speaker emergency. In the midst of a global pandemic, emergencies happen. That's why there was a rare typo.
* I explained to you that *online security* is the reason behind our Zoom process & the delay with the login. We haven't had a security problem because of the precautions we take. These precautions have not interfered with any other members experience, to my knowledge. I'm proud of our track record keeping our community safe, as other orgs have had challenges there.
* The LinkedIn tag you are mentioning was *promptly* taken down, without you asking. I think it was within 5-10 minutes of the post, as soon as our social media assistant was notified that you cancelled your membership. You had RSVP-ed to many events before writing in the cancellation, confusing the support team.
* You didn't go through our usual customer support channel (it's a great team and I stand by their work). You repeatedly messaged me on LinkedIn about these issues. I was quite concerned about the large deviation between your experience vs. the typical brunchwork on-boarding experience (across thousands of interactions - I do not think it's accurate to call brunchwork an 'idea' at this point). I didn't pass you on to customer service.
I thanked you multiple times in private for flagging the 2 typos you found, and profusely apologized to you for any inconvenience caused. The transcript of the entire exchange is on LinkedIn.
We have since fixed the 2 typos that upset you - including the sentence asking people to RSVP for events in the current calendar month (a holdover from our event days, related to minimizing food waste). You wrote to me this *particular sentence* caused you to cancel your membership.
Thank you again for flagging the typos. I wished you the very best in private & I do so again now.
Brunchwork has amazing speakers! They find so many great leaders across tech- Instagram, Spotify, Peloton, HBO, ClassPass, to name a few. I also love that they also do an exercise at events where you work on a team to pitch a “start-up” idea to the speaker. It’s a fun way to get to know people and interact with the speaker. I’ve met lots of great people and learned a ton.
@mapbackwards Pam, It's been wonderful getting to know you over the years. Thanks for the feedback!
I recall speaking at a Brunchwork event last year https://www.facebook.com/events/... . The community was exceptional and the event was very well executed. I can't wait to try the Brunchwork at home version and see how I can keep learning here.
@ugwigr Thank you Gregory! That was a great event. Howard Morgan, cofounder of First Round, spoke that day & he was actually our very first "brunchwork at home" speaker. See you soon :)
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