Pattern Breakers

Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"

Dec 2, 2019

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Working in the Tech Industry During the Dot-Com Bubble: A Personal Account

01:19

Building Neighborhoods: Learning from Political Organizing

00:55

What Did You Learn About Community Building It Opinions?

02:33

The Things That You Learned From Your Opinions

02:28

Introduction

2min

How Did You Become an Entrepener?

3min

How Did You Become a Co-Founder?

4min

The Hardest Day of My Professional Career

2min

We're to Rock People's World

2min

What Happened in the Beginning?

2min

What Did You Learn About Community Building It Opinions?

3min

The Things That You Learned From Your Opinions

2min

The Next Big Thing?

4min

10.

The Next Door Idea

4min

11.

You Can Only Have One Value Proposition

2min

12.

Building the Right Neighborhoods

5min

13.

How to Build a Social Media Company?

3min

14.

Building a Network Effects Company From Day One

3min

15.

How Do You Get Out of This Echo Chamber?

2min

16.

Bowling Alone - Social Capital

2min

17.

Building a Successful Company - The Ultimate Team Sport

2min

18.

Women and Teckah - What Are Your Thoughts?

4min

Nextdoor today is worth more than $2 Billion and is used by 250,000 neighborhoods throughout the world. Silicon Valley types had doubts about their approach, but Sarah offers valuable ideas for finding the path to the light. One crucial hint is that users matter far more than the folks in the "chattering class." Check out the Pattern Breakers Blog at patternbreakers.substack.com for even more Pattern Breaking content from Mike. Mike's book Pattern Breakers is available now wherever you buy books. Follow Mike on X!

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