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title: 'Experimenting with social distance: PIE Demo Day goes fully virtual'
date: '2020-03-18T23:55:38-07:00'
type: post
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categories:
  - Events
  - Oregon
  - Portland
tags:
  - coronavirus
  - covid-19
  - covid19
  - 'demo day'
  - PIE
  - piepdx
  - Social
  - 'social distance'
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# Experimenting with social distance: PIE Demo Day goes fully virtual

I sincerely hope you’re hanging in there. Stuff is weird. I mean, seriously. To be more blunt, shit is weird. And isolating. And lonely. But [PIE](https://piepdx.com/), one of Portland’s oldest startup accelerators, is hoping to, ahem, disrupt that isolation. By holding its demo day virtually. With appropriate social distance.

Sound interesting? It’s okay to say no. I totally get it. But if you said yes, there are a couple of ways to participate. Both passively and actively.

On the passive front, the embed below will suddenly burst to live (upon refresh) at 2:00PM PDT on March 19, 2020. (It’s private now.)





Or you could just subscribe to the [PIE YouTube channel](https://piepdx.com/youtbe) and it will ping you when new videos are uploaded.

Want more of a traditional PIE Demo Day experience? No worries. Just [follow along with the PIE Twitter account](https://twitter.com/piepdx) to get the play by play on demo day.

*\[Full disclosure: I am the cofounder and general manager of PIE\]*

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