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Apr 19, 2021 • 1h 6min

[Greatest Hits] Quitting Communities, Choosing Platforms, and Developing Strategy with Sarah Hawk

In today’s Masters of Community episode, you’ll hear from Community Industry expert of 20 years and native New Zealander, Sarah Hawk. Hawk began working as a software developer at Xerox in the 90’s, where her interest in the tech community was sparked and led her to eventually landing the role as a community manager. Her experience as a community manager at SitePoint network, head of Community at FeverBee, and an online community consultant finally led her to migrating to Discourse in 2016 as the Head of Community. Hawk discusses the shift that’s occurred from necessary, organic, and authentic communities to communities starting with a business goal and focused on statistics and metrics. Hawk also talks about the challenges and courage it takes to step down and move on from a community. Finally, Hawk shares the steps for figuring out a community strategy, beginning with your research, finding the fundamental need, and being a successful community manager. As well as how to find your community platform, make the most of it, and the most important metrics to measure. Notable Quotes Referring to Community Managers: “I think without the right kind of personality or the right kind of character, and depending on the kind of community, we know that the fundamentals they've got to have good product knowledge, and they've got to have the respect of users is all of those standard things that we talk about all the time, but they've also just got to have that something magic that works for that kind of audience. They need to be approachable, but knowledgeable. Right.” “My number one metric would be DAU over MAU. So calculating your stickiness. Calculate your monthly active users and dividing by your daily active users. So yeah, the stickiness of your community, because speaks across the board to a good experience, right? If people keep coming back, they either love it and love everything, or they love one thing so much that they're willing to overlook the parts that they don't like. And so the holy grail of stickiness would be, you know, around the 30% mark, but it's extremely rare to see that.”Masters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Apr 13, 2021 • 1h

Powering through Loneliness with Adam Smiley Poswolsky

Adam Smiley Poswolsky, author of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, joins us today to talk about the loneliness epidemic and the power of in-person friendships. Smiley shares his experience of digitally detoxing at ‘Camp Grounded’ and the positive impact that this has on overcoming loneliness and finding purpose. We discuss how media can be a way-station to connect and meet others in real life, and the steps that can be taken to enhance meaningful friendships. Learn how to help your community form meaningful relationships through deep one-on-one connection and encouraging true friendship in community and the workplace. Who is this episode for?: Everyone 3 key takeaways: 1. Enhance meaningful friendships by nurturing one-on-one, in person connections, being more playful in your character and questions, and becoming a better friend to others. 2. Encourage friendship in the workplace and your community to reduce loneliness and create meaningful connections. Provide spaces for your community to discuss what they’re going through, a safe space to check in, opportunity to play and team-build, a time to build friendships, etc. 3. Digitally Detoxing lessens feelings of loneliness and helps you become aware of your tech use, live a more balanced life, and focus on nurturing IRL relationships. Use tech and social media as the waystation to meet others, get new ideas, be inspired, find out about an event or community, and then use that to connect off the platform in real life. Notable Quotes: “If social media and tech are used as the way station where people meet people, get new ideas, get inspired, find out about a great product, find out about a great event or community and then they use that to connect off the platform....then the tech is actually contributing to meaningful connection.” “It's the disconnect between where your connection levels are and where you want them to be or where you think they should be. That's what loneliness is. It's that gap. And I think one of the reasons...has to be technology and social media. Because if you think about the disconnect, it's like, okay, here's how I feel. You know, everything's really hard, but then I'm spending the entire day looking at what everyone else is doing and where everyone else is, and the amazing places they might be, even if the photo is from three years ago and the people that they're with, wherever they are, being like, ‘Man, why didn’t they invite me to hang out?’ or ‘everyone's life is so cool’ or ‘everyone's so connected and engaged and happy.’ And I'm sitting here at home by myself on a Friday night looking at this damn phone. So, I mean, I think that has to be a big factor in it.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? The War of Art by Steven Pressfield 2. What’s Your Go to Pump- Up Song?: Hang With Me - Robyn 3. What’s your wildest community story?: The Starting Block Institute for Social Innovation - a leadership development program for people interested in social impact, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship. This experience spring boarded Smiley to moving to DC and become a writer and completely change the trajectory of his future. 4. What community builder would you want to take out for lunch? Priya Parker 5. What’s a community product you wished existed?: An app or platform that provides the opportunity to say ‘hey do u want to connect over this person and get together in real life?’ 6. What’s the weirdest community you’ve been a part of? Zen as F*** 7. If you’re on your deathbed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? Find believers. Find more people that believe in the beauty of your dreams.Masters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Apr 5, 2021 • 1h 2min

[Greatest Hits] Creating a Safe Space: How Naj Austin’s Ethel’s Club was Designed for Intersectionality

In this episode, we sit down with Naj Austin, the founder of Ethel’s Club, to learn how she created a community for Black professionals after facing microaggression and racism in co-working spaces. Naj began her community just last year in January 2019, and after a month she already had journalists rolling in to write up posts and articles on Ethel’s Club. Naj had never experienced a space where people of color were empowered, thriving, and healing. So she set out to change this by hosting multiple events per week where people of color would gather and share creative ideas, provide wellness help, and engage in meaningful conversation. Ethel’s Club now hosts multiple events per day and has launched a virtual clubhouse with the onset of Covid-19. The question Naj continues to reflect on is: “are we still a place for everyone? If not, how do we change that?” Naj discussed how a community can remove all systemic racism, and how Ethel’s Club has been affected by the Black Lives Matter movement. Ethel’s Club is currently working on creating a social marketplace for people of color to explore, shop for products, communities, and experiences. Who is this episode for?: B2C, in person and online, Starting 3 key takeaways: -Naj affirms that an inclusive, diverse community must begin from Day 1 in order to completely remove any systemic racism. -Ethel’s Club has been ‘transformative’ for people of color who now feel like being a person of color is the norm, and they are fully empowered, celebrated, and centered. -Ethel’s Club’s core value is that their space is a space for everyone, and they continually reflect on this each day to ensure they live and represent this belief.Masters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Mar 29, 2021 • 1h 1min

[Greatest Hits] Community and the Power of Ritual with Casper ter Kuile

In this episode, we're joined by Casper ter Kuile. He's the author of "The Power of Ritual," a Harvard Divinity School fellow, host of the award-winning podcast "Harry Potter and the Sacred Text," and a co-founder of Sacred Design Lab. In this video we connect past (more traditional) communities to modern day communities and discuss how they are intertwined.  This discussion focuses on: 1) Where community comes from. 2) How ancient community practices show up unwittingly in today’s world. 3) Echoes of old practices finding new form in today’s world. 4) How can old traditions be valuable in today’s world and how can we learn from them? We also take a deep dive into the why and how religion/religious institutions have evolved over the years.  Additionally, we discuss religious rituals and how they can be seen everywhere from our fitness communities to our workplaces.  In this discussion we focus on: 1) What has been attributed to the decline of religion over the past 50 years. 2) Religion as an institution vs. religion as a belief and value system. 3) How people satisfy their spiritual desires in today's world. 4) Where are people finding things that have been unbundled from religion. What platform/technology will allow customers to connect better with themselves, others, nature, and a sense of a higher existence (transcendence) in a coherent way. Finally, we discuss what all community builders can learn from religious communities, and how to identify rituals that bring deeper purpose and soul into your community spaces.  This includes: 1) How the workplace provides for a more meaningful community. 2) What does a community need to help people make meaning and build authentic relationships. 3) Where do people go/who do people trust to “shape” them. 4) Rituals that take place in our lives and in community spaces. Links and learnings: — https://www.caspertk.com/ — https://sacred.design/ — https://twitter.com/caspertk — https://cmxhub.com/academy/the-community-mba/Masters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 2min

Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection with Marissa King

Today we welcome Marissa King to the Masters of Community podcast. Marissa is the author of the new book, social chemistry, and a professor of organizational behavior at Yale. In this episode, we discuss the 3 types of networks: brokers, conveners, and expansionists, and how communities and networks differ. Marissa shares her insights into cliques, gossip, and the 6 degrees of separation and how these play into networks and communities. We wrap up talking about creating authentic networks through proximity and interaction frequency while being fully present. Listen to the full episode to enhance your communication skills in community, business, and your personal life. Who is this episode for?: Everyone 3 key takeaways: - The 3 network types consist of: brokers, conveners, expansionist - The 2 ways we create networks are proximity (space) and interaction frequency (formal project assignment - Community: higher sense of identity & common goals vs network: a simple descriptive tool that maps a set of social relationships who can come together in certain configuration but may not identify as a community. Notable Quotes: “ What allows for successful mobilization? Or successful behavioral change? Or what allows for people to truly feel engaged with one another and supported? For every single one of those outcomes, it's not the size of the network that matters. What's far more important is trying to understand, how are those networks structured?...And so I refer to these three network types is brokers, conveners and expansionists in each of these types has this certain set of properties.” “A network is just a simple, descriptive tool. It's a way of mapping a set of social relationships, but I think the difference between a network is you can have a lot of people who come together in certain configurations, but they may not necessarily identify as a community. And I think, with the overarching differences is that a community has some sort of higher identity or a set of common goals and a set of common purposes. That higher level identity or shared purpose is what's unique about community that doesn't necessarily exist just by having a collection of individuals coming together.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? "The Science of Sync" by Steven Strogatz 2. Most memorable community experience? When Marissa observed 12 step groups in action. These were such diverse groups of people coming together with the emerging issues of substance disorder. 3. If you’re on your death bed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? It’s all about love. At the end of the day, you’ll remember relationships the most. 4. What’s your go-to community engagement starter? What’s something you’re most excited about right now? 5. Weirdest community you’ve been a part of? Reed college - weird school in Portland Oregon: 6. Would you prefer to have strong ties or weak ties for the rest of your life? Strong ties 7. #1 tip to someone who wants to improve their networking skills? There’s extraordinary value in your current network - focus on that first.Masters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Mar 15, 2021 • 1h 1min

How To Build a Social Media Community with Matthew Kobach

Matthew Kobach is the Director of Content Marketing at Fast, a PhD dropout, and former social media manager at NYSE. Matthew joins us in this episode to share how he used community building lessons to create gripping content, grow social media channels, and communicate more effectively. Matthew shares his three steps to building a social media brand, which consist of being unbelievably niche, being consistent, and compounding tweets. He teaches how to become a lighthouse on social media and his routine for planning and ideating social posts. We wrap up talking about the necessity for passion in what you do and letting what you're good at become a passion. Check out this episode to improve your social media presence and become an effective communicator. Who is this episode for?: B2B & B2C, Online, Revitalizing 3 key takeaways: - Three ways to build your social media brand: Be Unbelievably Niche, Be Consistent, Compound Tweets. - Be the lighthouse for topics you’re interested in. 90% of people don’t post, they just read. Get this 90% to look at your content. - Need to be passionate about and enjoy what you’re doing. Being good at something makes you passionate about it. No matter what you do, there will be aspects you don’t love - but make sure it’s something you’re curious about. Notable Quotes: “You need to be passionate about it. You need to actually enjoy it. So being good at something makes you passionate about it. You know, so if you're, if you're able to, uh, tap into something, you've got this really active community and, and you're, you know, you're the one kind of heading it, you're going to be passionate about it. So it's probably going to work out, but for you to go through that kind of the muck and mire of it when it's not really going that well, that's when it should be something that you're actually interested in.” “90% of people don't really post on social media, 9% post, a medium amount, and 1% of post most of it. So those 90% of people, they have interests, they want to participate. Maybe they'll reply once in a while, but for the most part, they just want to read interesting thoughts. So that's the lighthouse - you’re trying to get those 90% of the people, and they're looking for topics that interest them. The only way for them to find you is if you turn your light on and you start talking about the things that interest you, and you've just got to hope that they're actually attracted to what you have to say.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? How to win friends and influence people 2. What’s your most memorable story? When at the stock exchange, Snapchat had just started and he needed to enlist Snapchat in the stock exchange. His goal was to make his snapchat really good. Recognized in NYC as the “New York Stock Exchange Snapchat Guy”. 3. What’s a Community tool or platform that you love to use? None, doesn’t like using them. 4. If you could only follow 3 people on Twitter, who would they be? Danye Taylor, David Parrell, OrangeBook 5. What’s your ultimate tip for someone who wants to improve their reputation online? Get better at communicating exactly what it is you mean. 6. Weirdest community you’ve been a part of? Traded and burned CD’s with others from the band ‘Fish’. 7. If you’re on your death bed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? Say what you mean to say, say what you want to say. So much in life is about not communicating what we feel because we can’t or are scared to articulate it.Masters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 9min

How Nextdoor Scaled Community to 268,000 Neighborhoods with Sarah Leary

On this episode, we’re joined by longtime community leader, Sarah Leary, the Co-Founder of NextDoor and investor at Unusual Ventures. Sarah discusses the influence community is having on personal and professional lives, and its key role in building businesses relationships with customers. We discuss Sarah’s experience building the NextDoor community, growing it from 1 to 250,000 neighborhoods across the United States. Sarah emphasizes the need to embed community into the product team to create a change in the product and put community insights into action. Dive into the full episode to learn what Sarah looks for when investing in communities and how she measures the business value of community. Who is this episode for?: B2C, Online and In Person, Scaling 3 key takeaways: Embed the community into the product team to enact change into the product itself. Community insights are actually put into action and lead to a better product over time. Invest in building community early on by authentically interacting with your users. Identify the early adopters and develop relationships with them that will lead them to become the voice of the community. Measurable impact of community: Percentage of growth coming from organic sources and referrals Notable Quotes: “Where can you get the resources to put the ideas into practice? So sometimes that means just embedding it in the product team, right. So the simple act of having someone who owns community, who's sitting in the weekly, or potentially even daily product meetings and constantly raising what the issues are and getting that team to be hyper-responsive to the needs of the community, like that can have a huge impact.” “You can plant the seeds, but you've got to nurture it and turn over the soil and water it and cultivate it in the early stages of building any community, and this was true with next door, you've really got to do the hard, heavy lifting of nurturing a community.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam 2. What are critical Industries you’re looking to invest in? FinTech, Crypto 3. What’s your wildest Community story? Epinions blows dogs. Revolt from community. Changed reward system and limited ability to edit reviews. Cannot take away community’s ability to change content. 4. Who’s an up and coming community builder you think is going to do big things? Evan Hamilton at Reddit, Erica Kuhl formerly at Salesforce and now a consultant 5. What’s a community building technology/app all should use? Nextdoor Contra, which is a place to connect with other independent/freelance workers - profile is at the forefront Building robust profiles should be a focus of all communities 6. A community product you’d love to invest in if someone built it today? A platform to help our country unite across political lines 7. What’s your go-to community engagement starter? Personal Appeal - tell a story when you have a need. 8. Weirdest community you’ve been a part of? Son of Sam Horn community, Foodie Community (Food 52) 9. If you’re on your death bed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? Most treasured things in life must be earned. There’s not shortcut. The harder they are to achieve, the more they will be treasured. True in personal life, business, and community. Work on things that have impact and extend beyond your direct day-to-day involvement. If it feels hard, that’s a good sign. Contact Info Twitter: @SarahLeary Unusual.vcMasters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Mar 1, 2021 • 58min

Building Community at Nike, Reddit, WeWork, and Teal with Erik Martin

Rarely do we see a community leader make a difference in so many diverse departments and programs, but Erik Martin is one of a kind. He’s currently the Chief Community Officer at Teal, but over the past 20 years he has worked in the film industry, Reddit, DePop, WeWork, Airtime, and Nike! In this episode, we discuss why the community industry is blowing up and how community stands out from traditional marketing. Erik discusses his role as a Chief Community Officer and shares the vision for Community becoming its own department in businesses. We talk about the benchmark metrics needed to truly understand community health and the complexities of community conversions and analytics. Erik shares valuable nuggets of wisdom about adapting to the needs of the community you’re growing and teaches that the community is always smarter than you and will lead you in the right direction. Who is this episode for?: B2C, In person & Online, Revitalizing 3 key takeaways: Community is always smarter than you are and will lead you in the right direction. They are the ones invested in the product or community and will give you a look into what people actually want and need. The Chief Community Officer Role signals that community is a central pillar to the organization and not just an aspect of another department, such as marketing, sales, or operations. Benchmark metrics is the goal for understanding community health. Having a relative baseline to compare the community metrics to will provide a much more comprehensive, holistic view of the impact on community. Notable Quotes: “I've been reminded over and over again, that the community is always smarter than you are. Meaning myself, the individual, but also the company in a sense, and that if you're really building products, not just for users, not just for community, but with the community, they'll really lead you in the right direction, especially in early stage startups or when you're launching something new. Collectively the group of people is going to be smarter than any one individual or even small group of people.” “I'm the chief community officer but we have a relatively small team, but what it means and the reason why I think it's important... is because what it signals is that community is a central element, it's a central pillar, it's a part of our DNA. It reports to the CEO and I think that's important. The titles themselves are more for external usage, but internally it's like, okay, community is not just a part of marketing or just a part of support or just a part of operations or just a part of a product. It's its own thing that has its own scope, its own metrics, its own contribution to the business.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 2. Who’s an up and coming community builder you think is going to do big things? Jocelyn Hsu at Picsart and Sanmaya Mohanty (creator of the Community Manager Guide) 3. What’s your wildest community story? ACL Subreddit for people with ligament problems. It’s become a place for people to talk about ACL surgery and post-op recovery, etc. Asked the community on Reddit what was going on with his ACL and found out he had a screw loose in his knee. 4. What’s your go-to community engagement tactic? Challenge -30,90,10 day challenges. Very social and gives accountability. Ex: new vocab word of the day challenge, career challenge, 5. What’s a community building technology App people should be using: Spatial communities or asynchronous real life (ex: Pokemon Go, Augmented Reality, Randonautica, AYA) 6. Weirdest community you’ve been a part of? A Virtual Cult of traditional Chinese medicine with the leader Master Sha 7. If you’re on your death bed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? We are the stories we tell ourselves. If we aren’t happy with who we are and what we are, we need to tell better stories. Links: Teal- https://www.tealhq.com Community Manager Guide- https://guide.cmgr.page/community-manager-page/ Twitter: @Hueypriest Reddit: @hueypriestMasters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Feb 22, 2021 • 56min

Building Deeper Friendships with Kat Vellos

Today we have the pleasure of hearing from Kat Vellos, author of “We Should Get Together”, who discusses all things friendship and how to establish meaningful connections. When Kat first moved to the Bay Area, she struggled to have ongoing, deep friendships due to the transient nature of Silicon Valley. She took this opportunity to learn about the loneliness epidemic and how to create meaningful connections. We dive into the loneliness effects of social media as well as the impacts of Covid on loneliness. Kat teaches how community builders can help their members form real lasting deep relationships through the 4 Seeds of Connection: Compatibility, Frequency, Commitment, Proximity. We wrap up discussing how to be intentional and honest with your needs and boundaries in friendships and community. Who is this episode for?: Everyone, In-Person & Online, Revitalizing 3 key takeaways: The 4 Seeds of Connection are: Compatibility, Frequency, Commitment, and Proximity. Both building or being a part of a community and establishing individual close friendships are crucial to finding meaningful connections and escaping the loneliness epidemic. Creating a norm for deep, real talk in communities will establish a culture of real friendship and lifelong bonds. Provide prompts to start real conversations, help people help each other, and make it known that this is a place to talk about XYZ. Notable Quotes: “Community is a wonderful source of those friendships and sometimes those friendships lead us to community. But I really think of them as two like branches on the same tree. I think life is full when there's a bit of both. When there are those intimate, close friendships with just a few people and then of course there's the outer rings of like less close friends, but you know, you feel good, they're your homeys, they can come to your birthday, you know? And then there's the friendly acquaintances and then there's community where there are interrelated ties between each individual person. So it's not just like a pile of disparate people that don't know each other, but they all know you in community. There's a sense of belonging within the group, to each person in the group, with each person in the group.” “The less you keep it in the shadow and keep it invisible, the easier it is to solve. So when I said to people, ‘I'm working on a book about adult friendship’, people were like, ‘Oh my God, I really want to talk about that. It's been hard or it's been this’, but they don't talk about it to anybody. Because everybody feels like you can't talk about it, but everybody wants to talk about it. So say this is the place to talk about XYZ thing, you know, no matter what it is, whatever topic that you tend to focus on in your work or that you want to bring to your community as a source of growth and learning.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? The Secret Lives of Color 2. Who’s an up and coming community builder you think is going to do big things? If Lost, Start Here by Amanda Sheeren and Claire Fitzsimmons. 3. What’s your go-to community engagement starter? Instead of ‘how are you?’ - ‘What’s been in your tabs lately?’ ‘What’s something you’re looking forward to or something you’ve been dealing with?’ ‘What’s been on your mind that you want to talk about?’ ‘What do you do or don’t want to talk about today?’ 4. What’s your go-to self care practice? Nature 5. Would you rather have one good friend for the rest of your life or a hundred loose connections? One good friend. 6. Weirdest community you’ve been a part of? Living in an Intentional Community. Semi off-the-grid in a rural coastal jungle of the Southeast edge of the Big Island. 7. If you’re on your death bed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? Whatever your gift is, give it. Whatever your purpose is, live it. Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katvellos_author/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatVellos Books and events: weshouldgettogether.com Work: katvellos.comMasters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so
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Feb 15, 2021 • 55min

Investing in Community-Driven Companies with Lolita Taub & Jesse Middleton

Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton from The Community Fund VC join us in this week’s Masters of Community Episode. They are early stage community investors searching for community-driven founders. Having the community embedded across the organization is crucial as it drives marketing growth, product decisions, customer service, and more. Lolita and Jesse discuss the business behind community, what metrics they look for when determining a community to invest in, and measuring the value of this community in the organization as a whole. They dive into where community should fit in an organization and the importance of having community as its own individual department. Lolita and Jesse continue to search for underestimated founders serving underserved markets, with the goal to tap into this potential and transform the business through community. Who is this episode for?: B2B, In person and online, Starting 3 key takeaways: - Community should be its own pillar in the business - separate from sales, marketing, R&D, etc. The goal is to have community be its own department one day. - The Community Return on Investment: (Value Gained - Cost) / Cost Lolita and Jesse search for founders who are community builders themselves. - Community needs to be embedded across the leadership of the company, so having a community-driven founder is crucial to the growth and success. Notable Quotes: “My personal preference, especially when we're looking at pre-seed seed companies, is that the founder be a community builder themselves. Similar to how, when we were looking at our investment partner team and putting it together, we were looking for those community builders, community leaders, because we want our founders to have that DNA of building community.” “Community builders spot community builders, community sees community. It's by design - great community leaders are amazing at that many-to-many interaction. And that is what we want our partners at The Community Fund to spot in the founders that they’re backing as well. Those that are great at many-to-many interactions.” Rapid fire question answers: 1. What’s your favorite book to recommend to others? Lolita - “Good night stories for rebel girls” Jesse - “Never Split the Difference” 2. Who’s an up and coming community builder you think is going to do big things? Lolita - Rei Wang and Anita @ The Grand Jesse - David Fano @ the Teal Community 3. What is a community building lesson that’s stuck with you? Lolita - ‘Authenticity and sense of belonging are two ingredients you must have in a community’. Jesse - ‘When a customer is not always right, the community is.’ 4. What’s the weirdest community that you’ve been a part of? Lolita - Indigenous area in Burkina Faso with the Peace Corps - stayed with a family in mud huts - and they spoke a dialect that taught her about community. Needed the community to survive, to eat, to move forward, etc. Jesse - Hacker Community, it’s a highly connected and diverse, crazy community 5. If you’re on your deathbed and you could only leave one piece of life advice behind for all the future generations, what would that advice be? Lolita - Face your fears. Do what you love. Live the life you want to live. Jesse - Do what you love. Work on things that you love. Helpful Links: The Community Playbook Cheat Sheet - https://medium.com/the-community-fund/the-community-playbook-cheat-sheet-31ae9ae77f3c Thread on community-driven companies - https://twitter.com/lolitataub/status/1298381835794182145?s=20 Dame products - https://twitter.com/DameProducts Root dolls - https://twitter.com/RootsDolls The Community Fund: How We Source, Select, and Support Startups https://medium.com/the-community-fund/the-community-fund-how-we-source-select-and-support-startups-74f48ada262a Community-Driven Companies: What They Are and Why We’re Investing in Them https://medium.com/the-community-fund/community-driven-companies-what-they-are-and-why-were-investing-in-them-f72629d11f86 Thecommunity.vc https://twitter.com/thecommunityvc Twitter.com/@lolitataub https://twitter.com/srcasmMasters of Community is hand crafted by our friends over at: fame.so

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