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almost 8,000 people ago it was the first
time I read the spell and since then I
have organized designed more than
thousand speed networking events where I
had the excitement to bring people
together to have them feel each other
and to try to find common points related
coloring together well you know the
whole see networking thing I know
nothing about even the word networking
when I was 17 years old the only thing I
know about speed was in the swimming
pool of national team getting ready for
the Olympics and everything that if I
don’t live by was through the water
chlorine and swimming and one day is
blessed that I got to the stairs I read
my knee and my whole drink immediate
Olympic athlete was over in one day and
it was very depressing because I don’t
want my wife on swimming
now that was taking away from me so I
decided that I join an exchange program
and move away as far as possible so I
think I achieved that because I ended up
in Oshkosh Wisconsin so for the ones
that don’t know much gosh Wisconsin is
eight months of winter it’s a beautiful
place
that’s very exciting so exercise
remained in silence for a very long time
to try to feel what just happened to me
because one day your international
champion
you feel great and the next day we’re
taking away from them
and then one day I just tried to still
going over and over why this happened to
me what happened
why I feel so distracted from life I
just realized that under that boy not
till I was 17
the only thing that I have in common
with people surrounding me was swimming
so I will talk about swimming I will
talk about listening rocky anybody
competition and and also talk about
competitions so the moment that the
ability was taken away from me I had
nothing left to share with anyone
yes I have all my swimming trunks but
hey I can explode with them so that
point staying alone I realized that
going forward if the only common thing
when people are angry is my ability is
only what I care about
and one day if I lose that that is
changed then losing your whole network
what a big loss so this is what I
realized
but the one thing when we have that
point at the university I had professor
economics professor and I would go to
this guy on I would say listen I need an
internship and I’m going to advise on
you can go to this company you gotta do
this but he would reply to me ask go
ahead and find who else like you needs
an internship in economics and finance
area I have no idea what what he meant
so because I trusted and I said okay
I’ll go middle chat around and it wasn’t
easy because for for a couple years I
was in silence and now he was asked to
go around and start talking to people to
realize if there are any more people
that has the same need and you know what
there were a lot of people with the same
II that I had indulged in a good company
so with his vision I was able to design
the first a networking event where we
thought to the students that also needed
that internship hot day to talk to
within two or three minutes to these
companies in a very strong and effective
way and coal companies and saying listen
you don’t have to come here two days we
did one day you can come here and you
can meet up to know 2030 us and that
have the elevator pitches ready and the
wall event was a huge success
we’re more than we’re more than twenty
of us we found our first internship
they’ll turn out to be our first jobs
that day my big decision was this no
matter what happens in the future
whatever I do if I need something for
the person sitting next to me from
someone for my network need something
the first thing I will do I will go and
the girl I’ll check a little bit try to
figure out if somebody else also has
that needs and then I would go ahead and
design a speed network event to bring
them together to resolve it to get to
know each other 20 people at their own
corner trying to solve something on
their own and can you imagine one day
all together and try to solve it
together so that day I started my
networking events and that’s actually
University then with my career starting
I started to do it at the financial
industry every week I bring people
together to resolve an issue or to chat about something the interesting