The opening Sunday of the NBA Playoffs delivered strong viewership across ABC and NBC/Peacock:
🏀 More than 35 million viewers in the U.S., the most in 15 years and up 65% vs. last season.
🏀 4.87 million average viewers, the highest in 15 years.
Streaming tech firm Plex held "Survivor"-themed corporate retreat for 120 full-remote staff in Honduras for $500k in 2017.
Could have been episode of "The Office":
◽️ hotel GM resigns 3 weeks before and says "I wish you the best with your retreat"
◽️ hotel head chef quits 3 days later
◽️ road to resort un-paved and towers with machine-gun toting guards en route
◽️food is crap and warned not to eat salad...Plex CEO wants veggies and eats salad, gets E.Coli on first day
◽️ Navy seal brought to run team through drills and it's a disaster because he'd never seen "such an unfit group"
◽️replacement chef had never served 100+ people and all chicken and beef comes out raw
◽️ resort fumigated every day to get rid of sand fleas
◽️ took 100+ employees to a remote island...~20 people stranded over night because 8-person propeller plane couldn't fly everyone back before dark (no light on runway on island)
A lot of people from trip still at company and Plex CEO Keith Valory says, "You get really close bonds on these trips. It’s like the life-sustaining force of the company."
$500,000!!!!!