Decoded by Threado AI Evan Hamilton - Learnings from a decade of building communities
🤙🏻 About the Guest - For over a decade, Hamilton has worked in the community space. Currently, he is the Director of Community at Hubspot and has worked at companies like CMX, Coursera, ZOZI, UserVoice.
🤙🏻 About the Host - Sharath Kuruganty is the Head of the Community at @ThreadoHQ. Currently, he is building Community Champs, a tight-knit community of world-class community leaders.
🤙🏻 Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro to the podcast and Evan Hamilton
01:07 - Evan’s origin story of getting into community space
05:01 - Learnings from experiences of working with different brands
09:21 - Community building in B2B vs B2C
13:08 - Building a community for B2B businesses
19:48 - Working with Alexis Ohanian at Reddit
23:27 - Advice for community builders
24:14 - Role of community at Hubspot
27:58 - Information overload on social media platforms/Irrelevant content on social media.
32:28 - Sneak peek into community roadmap at Hubspot
37:12 - Evan’s learnings from building communities
43:43 - Community building 101 for beginners and founders
47:21 - Empathy as a skillset for community builders
53:23 - The unspoken hard truths of community building
56:37 - Outro to the Podcast
🤙🏻 Shoutouts to awesome people
🤙🏻 Where to find Evan Hamilton - https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanhamilton/
🤙🏻 Where to find Sharath - https://twitter.com/5harath