Pedro Góes is the CEO of Snapdat & Ziplit and founder of InEvent, a Y Combinator-backed (S19) event technology company that has generated over $20M in enterprise sales and serves Fortune 500 clients including Amazon, Coca-Cola, KPMG, and Santander. A 3x "Most Influential in Events" honoree and BizBash 40 Under 40, Pedro has scaled InEvent to 150 full-time staffers with 200-300 people working daily across the globe, and even produced live broadcasts from the International Space Station. In this episode, he breaks down the exact hiring ratios, internship playbook, and role shifts reshaping team composition in the age of AI.
What You'll Learn:
- Why every full-stack developer now requires 3 quality analysts on the InEvent team
- The exact reason project manager roles are being killed and what's replacing them
- How Pedro built an internship pipeline that gets 2,000 applicants in the first week
- Why paying interns $25K to grow into $150K roles beats hiring senior talent cold
- The counterintuitive interview tactic Pedro uses to filter out "hype" candidates
- Why event industry roles are AI-resistant while radiologists and PMs are not
- The 5% RSVP conversion rule for founders throwing their first in-person events
- How to run a dinner strategy using your CRM heatmap instead of hiring an event manager
Chapters:
00:00 The shifting roles in event technology
01:15 Pedro Gois background and building InEvent
02:00 The post-2020 boom and the shift back to in-person events
03:27 Launching Snap Data to solve post-event sales follow-up
05:08 Running massive scale events for the UN and US Presidents
07:35 Global remote hiring and the value of human connection
12:27 Reallocating dev budget: Why AI requires three QA engineers per full-stack dev
13:43 Removing project managers to connect CS directly with engineering
16:15 Achieving 100% pipeline coverage post-tradeshow with instant AI follow-up
28:00 Interviewing for high-responsibility roles and rejecting hype
29:20 Building a global remote internship program that yields company managers
33:20 The founder playbook for running high-ROI customer and prospect dinners
Where to find Pedro:
Pedro Góes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrogoes
InEvent: https://inevent.com
Snapdat: https://snapdat.ai
Where to find Luiz Cent:
Website: https://latamcent.com/
Who We Hire: https://whowehire.org/
