David Spinks
Build Community To Grow Your Career
Episode Notes (by minute):
-2:30 - How David started writing his new book, The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage, and how an editor from Wiley reached out to David after reading an article David wrote for First Round Review.
-5:30 - David’s new career and life philosophy: “Everything good that happens to you is luck. But you have to keep putting yourself in the position to get lucky.”
-8:00 - How everything is David’s career has come from putting himself out there, sharing what he is learning and thinking about openly.
-10:00 - How David has never had a resume and thought about creating his own path, instead the traditional corporate path
-12:30 - The most valuable types of conversations are the ones that everyone is thinking but no one is actually talking about.
-14:00 - How David started building communities and one that he created on Twitter when that platform was getting started
-17:30 - A simple way and event that you could organize to build authority, credibility, and community
-18:30 - Why community can be simple to build, but it is not easy
-20:00 - The benefits of owning a topic as a business owner, creator, or solopreneur
-29:00 - How community can be a powerful way to scale your services as an independent, and how Lenny Rachitsky grew his newsletter and community
-30:30 - Why growing a community has scalability benefits and can provide a repeatable playbook for creators, solopreneurs, and companies
(Note: these are quick notes and takeaways by David Nebinski. Please see the episode for more accurate information)
Published Date: 3/4/21