Yes, you are! Keep up the good work, and the results will follow.

We’ve launched LinkedIn and Facebook pages for our community. They’re not primarily about promoting the community. They’re about putting you, your work, your projects, and your results in front of a much wider audience. We’ll share your best posts, discussions, and achievements, helping you reach the right people, whether that means new members, community owners, potential partners, sponsors, investors, or even potential buyers if you’re looking to exit. You can also bring us anything you’d like to put on the radar, whether it’s an event your community is organizing, a job opening in the community space, the launch of a new feature for the community app or tool you’re building, a new community project, or an opportunity to collaborate with other community leaders. Bring something valuable here. We’ll help it travel further. And if you want to be closer to what’s being built, Premium or VIP Partnerships give you greater visibility, but more importantly, the opportunity to help shape this emerging field with us.

I shared a post on LinkedIn about community autonomy. The thesis was simple: the best communities need their founder less over time. But here’s the harder question: How do you actually get there? What would you change in a community to make members create more value without relying on the founder? Drop your best ideas below 👇

Artificial intelligence is changing the rules of business in ways that could threaten even the largest companies. Adobe is one example. Developer Brandon Thomas used AI to create ArtCraft, offering free, open-source alternatives to seven Adobe applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro. They aren't full replacements for professional tools yet, but the speed of development is remarkable. What if products that took years and millions of dollars to build could be replicated in weeks? Even the biggest companies aren't untouchable. That's why I believe strong communities will become some of the most valuable assets of the future. It wasn't a coincidence that companies like Anthropic, OpenAI and Lovable were investing in community leadership, with reported annual compensation ranging from $300,000 to $400,000 for some Head of Community roles. They weren't just hiring people to manage social media. They were investing in relationships, trust and a competitive advantage that AI couldn't easily replicate. Consider Midjourney and its 18 million people on Discord. Competitors can copy its features, build similar image generators and offer lower prices. But can they copy millions of relationships, shared history, trust and collective intelligence? I DON'T THINK SO ❌ ArtCraft directs visitors from its website straight to Discord community. Even its LinkedIn “Learn more” button takes you directly to the community, not the website. The result? 115,118 Discord members, with 26,000 active right now, versus just 2,000+ LinkedIn followers. A strong community is more than an audience. It's a network of people who share knowledge, collaborate and generate collective intelligence that no individual could easily create alone. AI can replicate products, but it can't easily replicate years of trust and relationships.

Hi team, A bit about me: I previously exited Hashlock.com after co-founding it 4.5 years ago and growing it to be one of the leading firms in its industry globally. I now run an advisory firm helping other businesses to grow and to fundraise, and I've started a community for founders who are either fundraising or have fundraised in the past, as well as investors. If you're interested in meeting investors and founders, come join!