Hels C.’s Post

You know that feeling when you walk into a room full of strangers, and mentally calculate how many minutes you will last before your social battery gives out and you have to leave? Nope, me neither. Jack Cane, Wesley van Duin and Wouter Harink basically had to kick Kate H. and I out of the Clay Club Amsterdam because we couldn’t stop gasbagging with the room full of GTME folks who’d shown up for the Varun Anand show. And show he did — from creative use cases like KYC for mega/super/regular yachts to using Clay to prep QBR decks, to free business ideas founded in shortbread, Varun brought that New York energy to Amsterdam. And Amsterdam responded in kind — sharing workflows, hiring philosophies, management styles, entrepreneurial challenges. The conversations were invigorating and energising, and tbh, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend a Friday evening. Did it help that everyone thought we were a bit extra to fly in from London for 24 hours when Varun would be stopping by the UK for the final leg of his European Clay tour? For sure. Would we do it again? Absolutely. If you’re based in Amsterdam, work in GTM and want to know why Kate and I were being so extra, drop me a DM. Ps we enjoyed the Clay chat so much we showed up to Varun’s next stop the following day at Miro but what was discussed at Miro, stays at Miro…