The virtual events platform that kept a company alive

The problem

In 2020, COVID halted every live event The Go Game ran. The company had to move its whole business, from in-person team-building to fully remote delivery, in a few short months.

What I built

Weve combines live video with team games, activities and networking for corporate clients like Google and Capital One:

• A lobby that holds up to 10,000 attendees, with photo booths and video chats before the event starts.
• Video rooms for up to 25 people, plus small networking chats with ice breakers.
• 100+ games and activities, run by a host on site, a remote host, or the client in self-running rooms.

Engineering highlights

• No headphones needed. Everything on the page that makes sound plays through a local loopback WebRTC connection, so the browser's echo cancellation removes it.
• Screen sharing that stays sharp. A shared screen gets bandwidth priority and other videos drop to low quality.
• Autopilot and demo mode. Games advance on their own, and automated players fill teams so a prospect can try a game alone.
• Video conferencing and broadcast modules on AWS with the Amazon Chime SDK.
• Hybrid events. When offices reopened, I designed a rules framework for audio and video when remote players and people in the room play together.

Outcome

The company went from $0 to $10M in revenue in seven months and ran thousands of events a month on Weve by early 2021. I kept leading the team that extended it through 2026.