What happens in Vegas…
Hot off a great trip to Zürich for the Opening Ceremony of Kickstart 22, I jumped on a jet and off to a city in another continent that:
has more than half of the largest hotels in the world boasting over 150,000 rooms 🏨
is home to a sphinx that is bigger than the original one in Egypt 🦁
is considered the brightest spot on earth (the hotel I stay at has the brightest light in the world) 💡
receives less than five inches of rainfall per year 🌵
once saw a 25 year old software engineer put $100 in a slot machine, and win $39 million 🎰
Guess where yet? Indeed it is the Mafia's finest present to us, Sin City, AKA Las Vegas 🇺🇸
5 years ago, on my very first day at Surfly, I was on a flight across the pond to Vegas ✈️
On route to the legendary conference that is InsureTech Connect 🎪
I was mesmerised by the zestful revolutionists and the dazzling innovation happening in a traditionally stale and boring industry 🤩
Which led to helping leaders at so many great insurance brands around the world like AXA, Vitality, Generali, New York Life, Beneva, CSAA, MS&AD, Harel with their strategic ambitions 🚀
This year, Surfly is proud to sponsor that same event and if you are going you can find Tom and I over at Booth K54 where we were giving away a free holiday to our bicycle loving, canal-cruising, cheese eating hometown of Amsterdam - and lot's of other nice Dutch treats 🇳🇱
We had over 100 meetings in 3 days, but also had some fun along the journey too 🙂
I leave you with an incredibly inspirational quote from that happy-go-lucky, hairy and haphazard human we all love, Alan, from the Hangover whilst referring to Mike Tyson's tiger in a Vegas hotel room…
““Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon””
