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Community is the real moat. "Yesterday’s innovation always becomes today’s option and tomorrow’s commodity." - @lloyedlobo . Look how many competitors there are in every sub-niche already in the AI space. The winners will connect with their customers and serve them well!.

Volunteers to leaders. "If you treat your volunteers as an extension of the labor class, they just do their work and leave, they’ll treat it like that. If you give the spotlight to your volunteers… autonomy is giving up your control to give them leadership." - @lloyedlobo.

Start small. "Figure out their goals, desires and aspirations and figure out what’s standing in their way." - @lloyedlobo . Scaling too fast is an easy way to kill a community because without common desires and aspirations, it's just annoying notifications that get muted!.

The 6 steps to a community that lasts:. Connection. Autonomy. Mastery. Purpose. Energy. Recognition. @lloyedlobo . A community can't be based on one person, to scale you need to empower others and recognise them!.

The tool doesn't matter. "It’s about the emotion. It’s about how can you help them beyond the product or service." @lloyedlobo . Everyone obsesses over where to build their community rather than how to create authentic superfans!.

A lot of people talk about community but few get it right. @lloyedlobo built a community for @BoastCapital that helped it scale and raise over $100M. He also grew @tractionConf_io to over 100k entrepreneurs too!. Here are some top tips from his interview for @entrehandbook 🧵

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AI Discount. “I have an order of magnitude discount for AI. If usually I thought having a waiting list of 1000 users is good then if you’re in AI, you better have 10,000.” - @sandhya . AI is peak hype at the moment so it takes more to prove you have a product people truly want!.

More than time. “Not just to save time. I think that’s actually the least exciting reason. It’s to be able to do things you just couldn’t do before.” - @sandhya . Repetitive tasks have always been cheap. The real difference is creating a better product than ever before!.

Unstructured world. “You can do a couple orders magnitude of automation now even where there is unstructured data involved” - @sandhya . Many of the AI features that have wow'd the average person have been around for a long time. The real difference is being able to handle mess!.

Chat isn’t everything. “The end product just looks dramatically different for the consumer and enterprise markets. The mistake we often see a lot of founders making is not appreciated that nuance.” - @sandhya . Enterprises often need more control than what chat offers.

The opportunity to use generative AI in enterprise SaaS is massive. But lots of people talk about it have no expertise. You should listen to @sandhya as a General Partner of @unusual_vc because she invests in bleeding edge SaaS. Lessons from our @entrehandbook chat 🧵