From islands to the Alps, many stories meet and intertwine at Meeters. We want to tell you all of them: those revealing the behind-the-scenes of our team, those showing the backstage of outings with ambassadors, and those that allow us to get to know our guides better.
Today we start from Verona, with the founder: Davide Zanon.
Once upon a time, and still today, there are success stories. The one we tell you today went viral. But above all, I realized that people were looking for what I was looking for too: someone with the same interests to spend time with. The difficulty for me was trying to monetize this, so I told the story far and wide hoping someone would sense its potential and help me.”
In Davide’s eyes you can read all the emotion and unpredictability with which this story changed him. He believed in a project even before believing in himself and fell in love with it, with the constant conviction of needing to find someone who spoke his language.
Courage and Perseverance: Ingredients for Successful Entrepreneurship
“What few know is that at the first outings it was my girlfriend at the time, Carolina, who approached people and talked to them; I handed out name tags and tried to mask my shyness.“
In Davide’s words lies theessence of successful entrepreneurship. His story is the tale of someone who truly embraced the value of experience and who knew how to create a project by paying attention to his surroundings, letting them guide his professional and working life.
Courage and perseverance are the two basic traits, then of course you need skills and that bit of cleverness (and luck), which never hurts.
What seems impossible and unrealistic can turn into “the best deal” of your life, and a job that can provide employment not only for you but for many others.
For years Davide was a nomad, traveling and exploring Europe, getting to know himself better. For a long time he searched for someone who spoke his language, until one day he realized he had to tell the story of that idea, imperfect but winning.
Today he passes on to his team everything that led him to succeed: letting the mind roam free, without limits that could hinder aspirations and make possible things impossible.
Each of us writes the story of our life, in front of everyone… even when no one is watching. At every moment. We rarely realize it, yet every choice, more or less conscious, brings a precise turning point, with which we set a specific direction for our destiny.
Meeters’ stories are the kind of tales each of us keeps and even as adults feels the desire to listen to. The goal is to convey all the enthusiasm and beauty of sharing the same sense of belonging, a distinctive trait of those who have decided to join this wonderful reality. Soon we will discover them all.