How In 4 Short Weeks Coronavirus Caused A Tipping Point For Interactive Services

With everything going on, which for many of you, is a lot of nothing, there is something transcendental happening and a turning point for technology during this Covid-19 crisis.

This is what I tell a lot of people. It’s a period of transition. Everybody and every industry is transitioning normally, but the recent Coronavirus Pandemic has pushed certain things to a point of no return, where the world is not the same. Some of my friends have gone shear nuts running their own video programs on Facebook to Zoom calls on anything about everything. This is not the same world we were in, which was a one-way road to hell impeachment Pre-February 2020. It’s not 911, but it is definitely the 411 for everybody in tech to re-evaluate what you are doing in your job and in your life.

For me personally, the last 5 weeks are probably the busiest and most experimental period of my career. I have worked 12 hours a day, non-stop. In between the work I am doing, I am constantly on the phone. When somebody calls me on the phone, I walk. Yesterday I walked 8 miles or 15,000 steps according to my Fitbit. But why all this walk and talk, and why all this work. It was supposed to be a downtime for a lot of workers, especially ones in my situation. But it has been crazy, I mean crazy busy for me.

So let’s cover my situation. One of my sources of income was events. The dating events business my partners and I built up over 20 years is on hold. Hundreds…