Meet The Founder - Anthro Northwest 2024

Listen up now, cause public speaking is scary and we ain't doing this again. Please welcome the man of the hour: Gabriel for a bit of insight into the process of founding and maintaining a con

0:00 Welcoming Gabriel
1:37 Inspiring ANW
2:23 Evolving Con
3:15 Ten Years Time
5:12 Con Chair: Origins
8:00 Young Fur Advice
10:55 Con Scale + Growth
13:47 Making Andy
15:33 Values at Heart
21:03 Launching ANW
24:28 Volunteers all the way down*
27:49 Out-of-Season Sales
29:26 Thanks
30:29 Gote!
31:07 Time Commitments
33:29 Please tell me it gets easier
35:53 More Origins
37:56 Suiting Expression
39:30 Secret Sona
40:51 Incognito Mode
42:57 Event Themeing
44:44 Storyboarding
46:04 What's it like?
48:06 Merch Sourcing
51:08 The F Word
53:40 Projecting Growth
56:18 Future Venues
58:55 Infinite Growth in a Finite World