{"id":402,"date":"2012-08-08T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2012-08-08T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:13:29","slug":"50-lunches-with-entrepreneurs-journey-of-francis-marantal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/50-lunches-with-entrepreneurs-journey-of-francis-marantal\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Lunches with Entrepreneurs,  journey of Francis Marantal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The LetsLunch team recently set out to meet its most active luncher,<a href=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/francis\"> Francis<\/a>, to ensure we got to celebrate his\u00a0<strong>50th<\/strong>\u00a0lunch together.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-08-at-11.02.25-AM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-405\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-08-08 at 11.02.25 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-08-at-11.02.25-AM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-08-at-11.02.25-AM1.png 809w, https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-08-at-11.02.25-AM1-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Over the past months<em>\u00a0<\/em>Francis met with dozens of\u00a0entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, social media experts, and others for lunch, expanding his network.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Lunch is an hour during the day which really gets me out of the intense work schedule and i so look forward to meeting a new person that its one of the high moment of the day for me,&#8221; says Francis. He followed by expressing his love of meeting fellow lunchers to speak deeply about common topics of interest and really get to know the person 1-on-1.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-61.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-409\" title=\"photo (6)\" src=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-61-e1344449567536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-61-e1344449567536.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-61-e1344449567536-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-61-e1344449567536-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>The LetsLunch community is extremely engaged with 20% of its users <a href=\"http:\/\/LetsLunch.com\/search\" target=\"_blank\">LetsLunch.com\/search<\/a> have enjoyed lunch with a dozen or more fellow users. Users choose when, where, and with whom they want to meet to accommodate their busy schedules and preferences.<\/div>\n<div>If you haven&#8217;t already, join Francis and the rest of the community at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">letslunch.com<\/a>. As always, we&#8217;d love to hear your feedback and experiences at <a href=\"feedback@LetsLunch.com\" target=\"_blank\">feedback@LetsLunch.com\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LetsLunch team recently set out to meet its most active luncher, Francis, to ensure we got to celebrate his\u00a050th\u00a0lunch together. Over the past months\u00a0Francis met with dozens of\u00a0entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, social media experts, and others for lunch, expanding his network. &#8220;Lunch is an hour during the day which really<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}