Jacob Borgeson
@jacobborgeson
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.
Jacob Borgeson
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Peloton Marketing Strategy: Uncovering Key Lessons For Rapid Growth - NoGood™: Growth Marketing Agency
Community Building and Product driven communities
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.- Their stated mission is to "explore the future of human networks."
from Cohere Podcast by Bill Johnston
- - 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 inter... See more
from Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software by Li Jin
- "First, we need to explain the shortcomings of existing earning models. Traditional corporate employment is rapidly becoming outdated as a means for coordinating activity in the Information Age — we already see this in the emergence of alternative forms of earning such as influencers, contractors, creators, gig economy participants, and more. These... See more
from The Future of Work is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks - a16z crypto by Ben Schecter
- "By building a peer-to-peer overlay on top of git, we find not only a performant solution, but one that is better adapted for code collaboration. Issues, comments and reviews become local artifacts that are cryptographically signed and interacted with offline."
from Welcome to The Block Pro - The Block Pro by Mirror
Don’t apologize for being nervous, for caring, for not having 200 practice runs under your belt. The audience is offering you a tiny slice of time and attention. You cared enough to show up, here we go.
- 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.
from Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software by Li Jin