A product person looking to make the world a better place by applying technology to big challenges - and then building really strong communities to galvanize those solutions.
- Khoros (fka Lithium) - Samsung, Sephora, Microsoft, Airbnb, Powerschool, eBay, Etsy - Higher Logic (Acq. Vanilla Forums) - Tesla, Electronic Arts, and a lot of nonprofits. They also have good onboarding - Salesforce Experience Cloud - Farmers Insurance (Agents), UC BerkeleyAnd there are a few new entrants that might be interestingPayments... See more
There are actually about a dozen platforms designed to fill this need - and they make up about a $2-3B annual market for brand community platforms today. Community-building is nearly as old as the internet, and so much has been developed since the advent of message boards and forums.
"In a world where nearly all software relies on open source code, maintaining the resilience and health of the free and open source ecosystem is more important than ever. That's why we believe that dependence on centrally hosted platforms and corporations for the distribution of critical open source infrastructure is unsustainable. Reliance on such... See more