Chris Samila is the co-founder of Partnership Leaders - a strong bootstrapped business that provides community, connections and resources for partnership professionals.

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In this episode we discuss:

• Organising conferences and city-wide events with a volunteer-led strategy
• What does a partnership professional do?
• How Partnership Leaders (PL) charges their members
• Creating resources that create a strong hook
• Why they use a paid Slack to host the community
• How he turned an email thread into a community
• Building culture in the early days
• Charging for a free community
• Reducing churn
• Tech stack for running the PL business
• Chris' hiring philosophy