Our first ever retreat, when we were just 5 team members, three of whom had just joined.
Ask about the “we have a shot” dinner speech.
Also, Lisbon has some dangerously cheap-but-delicious seafood and Dom Perignon.
A couple more Smarties joined.
Many drinks were had, mediocre poker was played, the CEO slept for half of the next day.
The Mexicana Cheese meme was born.
We climbed a volcano, one team member was way too eager about health and safety, and the team got just a bit too cozy with a blow-up unicorn in the pool.
A product and engineering retreat, and also a farewell party for one of our departing team members at the time.
It’s cold in Brussels in December, if you didn’t know.
And yes, we did pretend to be a train in the city center... 🚂
<aside> 🤔 Something happened in 2020 that abruptly - albeit temporarily! - put an end to company retreats. What was it again...? hint: a LOT of people got sick 🤢
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