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Founded by Dr. Ivan Misner in 1985, BNI® (Business Network International) is the world's largest business referral networking organization. For more than 40 years, BNI has helped business owners and professionals grow their businesses through a structured referral marketing program built around meaningful connections, qualified referrals, and new business opportunities. Today, BNI connects more than 355,000 Members across 11,800+ Chapters in 77 countries, generating millions of referrals for one another every year.

Getting together with real people in real life makes powerful things happen. Side hustles become careers, ideas become movements, and chance encounters become lifelong connections. Meetup brings people together to create thriving communities. Show up. Change lives. To continue to help these tight-knit communities grow -- and to help new ones form -- we are rapidly growing our teams to maximize our impact on lives. We're ready to reshape and rebuild Meetup for the mobile, global future, and to craft experiences that echo the amazing feeling of going to a great Meetup event in real life. Our team is bold, supportive, and passionate about bringing people together in real life to create community for everyone. We care about moving fast, real-world change, and building diverse, dynamic teams. You in?

Whether providing face-to-face lunchtime networking events, as we have been since 1993, or hosting our more recent and equally successful online events, our purpose remains the same. We aim to provide business owners and directors with an effective and focussed environment to do business. Currently, the opportunity to make new contacts, to collaborate and share knowledge, and the ability to build a support network, is perhaps even more important than before. That is why we continue acting as ‘connectors’ for our members and finding new ways to make their expertise more visible.