This past year has been anything but easy—Year 5 to 6 was the hardest one yet, (and felt more like a decade!). This time last year there was a lot of chaos, despair, and uncertainty, especially for our industry. Fortunately, we’re in a much more positive, hopeful position with live events returning and the continued creativity and expansion our industry is currently experiencing; an exciting time.
Five years is a huge milestone for many life events, and yesterday cred turned 5 years old (on 5/5/20, our golden birthday!).
Five years in and, just as our CEO Caitlin Bartley shared on our last birthday, as we grow, our why remains the same: We believe that bringing knowledgeable, passionate speakers to engaged audiences builds awareness and excitement for you and your brand.
Since 5 years is such an important milestone, we wanted to stop and reflect on some of the biggest moments and accomplishments from our first half-decade.
It’s hard to believe it’s been three years! We started cred with a vision to connect passionate speakers to opportunities to build thought-leadership. To date, we have confirmed 1,800+ speaking opportunities for our clients to speak at events located all around the world! It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come at achieving that mission and so much more.
We’ve grown our team to a healthy 17 (and still growing). We've built a data-base of over 7,500 events from scratch, helped over 200 speakers connect with engaged audiences, and are launching our first official internship program this summer, too. In 2018, a huge focus has been to grow the Event Management side of the company and we are happy to report that we have been super busy working with multiple clients to coordinate and source speakers from one-day summits to multiple day conferences (with 27 under our belt to date).
cred works hard, but we also know how to party!
We celebrated our Third Birthday in style at Neyborly Union Square, a modern and chic art gallery here in San Francisco. The team shared stories of the company’s conception and spent time basking in nostalgia as we recalled memories from the past three years. It truly is something special to work at a successful company with such an accomplished group of individuals. Our three-year-old-selves would be proud!
