Community is the New Moat!

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You know your company has a vibrant community when non-employees are volunteering to host events. CMX’s survey found the majority of businesses allow volunteers to run events on their behalf. Startups like Gatsby, Databricks, and Confluent have done a great job empowering the community to run their own events. For example, Kafka reached 50,000 meet... See more

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