The role of the team in taking it further
After spending 5 great days camping around in California (it will not be part of this post but highly recommended anyway), the Tech Trek journey of 2019 in California begins. As committing in public is important when you want to do something and be regular, now it is my turn — will post at least once every two days on this platform.
It is time to think of what we have achieved so far but most important, how we did it. Overlooking the LAX’s runway from the hotel with the team made me think of how we got where we are, and where we want to go. It was only 7 months ago when we started to dream the plans for this year; what to do in Argentina, how to connect with the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, what our mental barriers were, where to focus, which ways to take and of course redefining our strategy.
We have already done incredibly cool things this year; organized talks in the main auditorium of the university, brought a group of 10 students from 7 provinces of the country to visit the Buenos Aires startup ecosystem, organized this trip and the upcoming activities for students from cities away from Buenos Aires (the capital) that are yet to come. However I do not want to focus nor on the “hands on” part not on its results. Being students who run this organization during their free time always raised a question in my head, how is this possible? Why are we able to do this? At the end of the day, we all are students who have to combine final exams, meetings, school, Tech Trek and social life.
Fortunately the same answer keeps coming to my mind every time I think of it, increasing “the sample size” and making my hypothesis even stronger; a great team is a game changer. Yes, it sounds cliche, right? But it is our diversity of backgrounds, majors, professional stages, interests, gender, combined with a purpose clear-as-day that all makes us tackle every problem taking advantage of the skills each one has. For instance, though one of the girls is extremely organized and has all the agenda in her mind, one of the boys is tirelessly reaching out to people to connect with the most innovative people in Silicon Valley.
All things considered, this makes me go to bed (yes, I am tired and tomorrow we gotta drive the whole way to Silicon Valley) with a thought in mind: an experience like Tech Trek is a great example of collaboration, team work, and a materialization of the well known quote “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. There are no super stars, but a great team backing up what we do with hard work to impact in our country and make a change and a great community supporting us at all times (special shout out to them). We have the chance to be chatting in the Tech Mecca of the world — responsibility on how to communicate the lessons and leverage them in Argentina is on our side. This is and must be way more than a dream or a fun trip with friends from uni; it is a way of creating more bridges to connect two worlds and take what we call “the impossible” in our minds, way closer to the daily life of the people in the Tech Trek community. Let me show you how it goes!
See you tomorrow Palo Alto!
