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Why Members-Only Clubs Are Everywhere Right Now
- A funny example is: in LA you have these social clubs, like the Soho Club, which are elite. Only now there are actually newer clubs that are even more elite. The San Vicente Bungalows — it’s even harder to be a member than it is for the Soho Club.
from Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance by Eugene Wei
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- At Maxwell we’re trying to reframe social clubs to be around this idea of inclusive exclusivity - you may not be able to get into the Soho Maxwell, maybe it’s full or you just aren’t friends with those people. Or maybe you can’t afford it, but that’s ok because we’re creating a system within which multiple Maxwells can be started at various price p... See more
from Inclusive Exclusivity - Self-Cancelling Greek Life And Our Broken Vocabulary Around Curation (Cafe Society Dinner Discussion #11) by David Litwak
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- I’m intrigued with the modern version of a country club. I think of concepts like Soho House or the Wing as “urban country clubs”. These membership businesses gather communities of like-minded people. They create repeat traffic and have demographic and psychographic desirability in their members. These communities are powerful because if they endor... See more
from The Internet empowered us to find our tribes. Retail isn’t keeping up. by Julie Thibault
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