How do we create community in a post-pandemic world? How do you reinvent your company and what does it mean to create a startup culture again?

In this episode of Associations Thrive, host Joanna Pineda interviews Sandra Nam, Co-Founder and CEO of Qiqo Chat. Sandra discusses:

• How Qiqo stands for Quality In, Quality Out.
• How Sandra was studying to become a landscape architect when she and a friend came up with the idea to develop a community platform to help her find fellow students and study effectively together.
• How Qiqo was an early Zoom API integrator, stringing Zoom meetings together to create breakout rooms.
• During the pandemic, she and Lucas Cioffi decided to focus on Qiqo full-time to help associations and nonprofits create a variety of different online meeting formats.
• How she calls the entrepreneurial journey “crazy fun.”
• The company’s pivot away from virtual meetings to an online marketplace, or a Buyer’s Guide on steroids, to help association members connect and find partners.
• One lasting effect of the pandemic is that today, we are able to meet and connect in a meaningful way online because that’s now an acceptable way to connect.
• Qiqo’s goal to help their clients be THE network, be THE community for their members.

References:

• Qiqo
• Association Marketplace