defining our goals

• profitable?
  • [a]
    • probably not that high of a goal — would be nice, esp if it doesn’t cost a lot of money
    • value to manifold
• increasing speakers?
• is marketing Manifold a big priority?
  • /prediction markets
  • [a] yes
• [a] marketing adjacent “things” — pronatalism, jonathon anomoly, etc
• newspaper article?
  • [r] inviting journalists is good, but if the good speakers, etc are there then this will happen
• bringing together the manifold community
  • giving ppl a really good experience
    • [a]
      • 2-3x people
• having a lot of fun
• [r] imagining more attendees, with the same experience bar
• [sm] goal to get new investors?
  • [a] no

manifest city

[a]

not a clear picture

hopping on a trend of vitalia, etc

4w period between Manifest and EAGxBerk

maybe like the bahamas thing?

organized by joel becker

these sorts of things very cool

another in mexico city?

[sm]

name?

lighthaven chill season? feedback from lightcone

[a]

raymond said this wasn’t successful, not many people came

basic things that have already been done

[a]

venue

80-90% finalized

same slack as last time

minimum willingness to accept: $65k incl rooms, $55k excl rooms

they split BATNA and min halfway

[r]

would like to spend some time looking thru berkeley venues, what needs to be done to add stuff in?

the venue question

• lighthaven?
  • we know them super
  • extremely expensive
  • not that big though
  • [d] our guests really liked lighthaven
    • it’s 4 months away
• some other venue?
  • uc berkeley
  • [r] can imagine doing VIP tickets for specific
• combination?