Not even a year ago, Dean was at the Deck the Hall Ball in Key Arena and noticed everyone’s phones up. That was December 4, 2012. Four days later, he made the first whack at putting on paper what Lively would be.
At our all-hands meeting yesterday, he showed us the Word doc where he first drew up the Lively App with some graphics. And we realized that while Dean is our fearless visionary and leader, he was very smart to hire the development team.
Yesterday Lively took a whole day and sat down as a company to look at where we’ve been, and to map out where we are going. It was just what we needed, because as we gathered around the table we noticed we are not a scrappy start up anymore. We are a company, with a whole team of people. People who have amazing and well-developed areas of expertise. As we ate jelly beans and listened to all of the teams present their goals, I could see a vision materialize in the room full of dreamers and doers.
We spent all day getting excited all over again about the Lively story, about each other’s work, and about what we had in front of us. We clapped for each other, told jokes, and at the end of the day, we felt so good about where we were headed that we invited Tayla Lynn Heller, Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter, to play for us at the Lively Lounge.
The wine flowed, the riffs scorched, and we all came in to work today refreshed, full of inspired energy and maybe a few too many jellybeans.
Tayla Lynn’s set is in the Lively app right now, and all the excitement from our meeting will be coming to you very soon.
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