Listen "S18E12: Mastering Community-Led Growth with Traction & Boast Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo (Season Finale!)"
Episode Synopsis
8-figure revenue. $123 million raise. A community of 100,000+ members.The buzzword in Silicon Valley is 'Product-Led Growth', but is PLG really the future?Lloyed Lobo Lobo thinks its CLG -- COMMUNITY-Led Growth. Building COMMUNITY is a low-cost, high-growth option that can become your ultimate moat. Lloyed would know — building up the Tractionconf.io community allowed his company Boast to bootstrap to that 8-figure revenue and pull in that massive raise. In the season finale episode of Startup Hypeman: The Podcast, I had the honor of interviewing Lloyed. He shares:-What you need to start a community-How to master CLG for your startup-How to make sure it isn't a massive failureHe also shares how his initial exposure to community came early in life as a Gulf War refugee, and how that's shaped his point of view.Find Lloyed online:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyedlobo/Find Boast and Traction online:Boast Website: https://boast.ai/Traction: https://www.tractionconf.io/This episode is sponsored by Miquido - a full-service software development partner that supports companies in building their digital products. Learn more at miquido.com/hypeman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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