Dave & Dasha Live from Drive

Dave Gerhardt (0:00)

Hey, it's Dave. So Zoom Webinars & Events has made our recent Exit Five live sessions way more pro lately. But don't just take my word for it. Check this out. This is what Kelly B said. She said, I compare all other webinars now against Exit Five. I love that. And look, in a world of AI slop, we just want to make something that's actually worth going to. It's not easy to get an hour out of your day. I'm just the on-air talent though. So I'm gonna kick it over to Marissa and Maria. This is our Exit Five live production team, our content team here at Exit Five, since they're the ones actually making this all happen.

Dasha (0:30)

I've been doing B2B content a long time. I know, it's hard to hold attention for more than 30 seconds, let alone a whole webinar, but Zoom Webinars helps. Recently we've had nearly 2,000 registrants, over 500 live and hundreds of hours of watch time on our sessions. Maria, what would you say is driving that?

Maria (0:46)

It all starts with prep. We do up to seven hours per session, choosing a topic, prep calls, building the run of show and so much more. With Zoom Webinars & Events, everything's in one place. Registration, emails, polls, analytics. So it's simple to run that cycle every two weeks. At showtime, I hand it back to Marissa in Zoom's Production Studio.

Dasha (1:06)

With Zoom's Production Studio, I can set the scenes in advance. So on the big day, I just send them live with speakers and content already in place. Clean transitions, crystal clear audio and video. I feel like I'm running the big game back there.

Dave Gerhardt (1:18)

So this is why our webinars have been crushing it lately. Look, they just said we're spending seven hours per session on this. And don't just take our word for it. Come and see firsthand. We run these every other Friday. It's called Exit Five Live, now powered by Zoom Webinars & Events. So come and check us out. See this whole thing live. And if you want to learn more about using Zoom at your company, check out zoom.com/exitfive. That's zoom.com/exitfive.

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Dasha (3:04)

And the episode that you're about to hear is a really fun one for a few reasons. First, it was recorded live at Exit Five's Drive event in Stowe, Vermont. And second, it's me interviewing the one and only Dave Gerhardt, founder of Exit Five. Full circle moment for me, I actually met Dave in person for the first time last year at last year's Drive. So it was really cool to this time sit down as the co-host of the show and get to Pepperham with a bunch of questions. I knew that leading up to Drive, Dave was preparing a keynote to open this year's conference. And I know that it was a roller coaster of emotions preparing for his big presentation. He just really wanted to do it justice. He knew how hard the team was working at organizing Drive and he really wanted a keynote to match. So spoiler alert, he had a friend of the show, Harry Drive, help him with his presentation. And that's what you're going to hear us talk about. I asked him a bunch of questions about what it was like writing it and what he learned along the way.

And at the end, you'll watch or hear Dave try some Canadian delicacies that I brought over from my home country, Canada, such as ketchup chips and Coffee Crisp. So you'll have to wait and stay until the very end to hear his reaction to those. Enjoy the show. Enjoy the pod.