I can’t answer from an insider’s perspective since I’m not an insider but the cost to rent facilities has gone up dramatically along with the increased costs of things like AV services and catering. In order to accommodate the larger number of attendees, they’ve had to take the show out of Boulder which adds to the cost, too. It takes a larger group of SketchUp team employees to put this together, too. I’m sure their salaries for the time they are working on Basecamp are paid out of those admission fees. I’ve been to all of those Basecamps plus at least one more. Each time I saw a major improvement in the quality and professionalism of the program. Granted it’s not cheap but I’m betting Trimble isn’t making much if any money off the price of admission.
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