When a community is growing in a healthy way it can feel painfully slow. We’re so used to marketing funnels! At this point, I see two things happen 1) we abandon the community or 2) use our marketing chops to flood new members in. We abandon our trees or over seed our gardens!
Despite all the negative publicity around hypergrowth and overvaluation, Peloton has retained a core group of users for a long time by focusing on building community and meeting customers with enthusiasm wherever they are. And they managed to scale that pretty well.