Pain Point 1
High-quality rooms (not sales rooms)
Bad rooms don’t just waste time — they tax your reputation.
What it looks like:
- People hunting transactions, not building ecosystems.
- Forced pitching, shallow listening, “spray and pray” intros.
- You leave with contacts, but no confidence to refer anyone (because you don’t trust delivery).
The deeper cost:
- You stop introducing people.
- You stop sharing real problems.
- You stop collaborating openly.
The fastest way to kill long-term networking ROI is to put good operators in rooms with bad incentives.