50,000 Meetups. 45,000 cities. 10.8 million monthly visitors. 11.1 million members. 117,000 Meetup topics.
When Scott Heiferman and his co-founder launched Meetup in the wake of 9/11, their mission was to revitalize local communities in America. With these numbers 10 years later, it's safe to say, "mission accomplished."
But Heiferman is still hard at work helping people find "Meetups Everywhere About Most Everything." The platform uses the power of the Internet to get people off the Internet, so they can develop relationships IRL with those who share their passions, from book clubs to entrepreneurship networking to running groups. If you have a passion, there's a Meetup for it.
Heiferman himself starts many days with a Meetup. "It's so important to stay connected to what you're doing," he says.
The rest of his day is spent talking to people, creating a better product, building a better team and interacting with Meetup organizers. He wants to know why people are starting Meetups and joining Meetups and what they're hoping to get out of it. "I'm generally not in front of a computer, I don't have a desk — I just want to be in creative mode," says Heiferman, a serial entrepreneur who founded Fotolog, a photo-sharing network popular in South America, i-traffic, an online ad agency, and the New York Tech Meetup which now has 25,000 members.
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