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The Minimalist Pro

Behind every great venue is an operator who figured something out the hard way. The Minimalist Pro by Safari AI goes behind the scenes with the COOs, GMs, and operations leaders running stadiums, resorts, theme parks, and retail destinations, and using AI and data to do it smarter. Each month, we sit down with one operator for a real, unfiltered conversation about the problems they solved, the tools that changed their thinking, and the lessons worth stealing. No fluff. Just ops.

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    AI at Altitude: How Derek Egbert Used Data to Bring Real-Time Intelligence to One of the World's Most Complex Operations

    A ski resort on a busy Saturday is one of the most logistically complex operations on the planet: thousands of acres, dozens of lifts, tens of thousands of guests, unpredictable weather, and a staff spread across an entire mountain. For years, operators had to manage all of it on instinct and radio calls. In this episode, we sit down with Derek Egbert, former VP of Operational Insights at Vail Resorts, to talk about what it actually looks like to bring data and AI into a world this complicated. Derek walks us through how Vail moved from reactive ops to real-time decision-making, what surprised him most about the human side of change management on a mountain, and what the rest of the venue and resort industry can learn from ski. If you run a complex physical operation and you're still managing by gut, this one is for you.

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Behind every great venue is an operator who figured something out the hard way. The Minimalist Pro by Safari AI goes behind the scenes with the COOs, GMs, and operations leaders running stadiums, resorts, theme parks, and retail destinations, and using AI and data to do it smarter. Each month, we sit down with one operator for a real, unfiltered conversation about the problems they solved, the tools that changed their thinking, and the lessons worth stealing. No fluff. Just ops.

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Behind every great venue is an operator who figured something out the hard way. The Minimalist Pro by Safari AI goes behind the scenes with the COOs, GMs, and operations leaders running stadiums, resorts, theme parks, and retail destinations, and using AI and data to do it smarter. Each month, we...

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