COMMUNITY

I go into barbershops and talk about the stock market. That is where the conversation needs to happen — not in boardrooms.

The wealth gap is real. The stock market is one of the few tools available to close it at the individual level. You have to use it.

SAFU.

Imagine a place where you can belong to a school club, a gaming group, a worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends.

Community is the killer app. Not features. Not technology. Just people who want to be around other people.

We went from Funko Pops to Pokémon to sports cards to sneakers to fashion. Each community pulls in the next one. Collectors collect more than one thing.

We trained 500,000 developers for free through UiPath Academy before most of them even worked at companies that paid us. That's how you build a market.

Our fastest-growing referral channel is one founder texting another: "just use Drata, it saved us three months." Word of mouth in the startup ecosystem is everything.

The give-to-get model was the key. You want to read reviews? Write one first. Every reader becomes a contributor. The content creates itself.

We didn't invent online reviews. We made reviewing a social activity. Yelp Elite events, reviewer profiles, "useful" and "funny" votes — we turned complaining about restaurants into a hobby.

I'm an engineer from India who somehow built the most social fashion marketplace in America. I don't know anything about fashion. I know a lot about building communities. That turned out to be the skill that mattered.

Our sellers host "Posh Parties" — virtual shopping events where people browse and buy in real time. It's QVC meets Instagram meets your neighbor's garage sale. That combination shouldn't work. It does.

They call me the Elon Musk of China. I understand the comparison, but NIO is not Tesla China. We are building something distinctly Chinese — community-driven, service-obsessed, and user-first in a way Tesla has never been.

Detroit is not a lost cause. It is a city full of people who know how to build things. Investing in Detroit is investing in resilience.

Philadelphia is my city. Owning the 76ers is not just a financial investment. It is a commitment to a community I love.

Reddit is the most authentic place on the internet because people are anonymous. When nobody knows who you are, you tell the truth.

The energy of we is greater than any one of us but is not equal to the sum of all of us. The energy of we is exponential.

Next.js is not a Vercel product. It is a community project that Vercel sponsors. The distinction matters.

Our instructors are the real stars. They turn a stationary bike into a stadium.

I started a blog. The blog built an audience. The audience became customers. The customers became a community.

Every person is an influencer. Glossier was built on that belief before the word 'influencer' existed.

During COVID, we were the most important company in America for millions of people stuck at home.

Open source built GitLab. Community trust is our most valuable asset.

When your floor price drops 90%, you find out who's here for the community and who was here for the flip.

The community isn't just our users. They're our co-creators. They own the IP. They build on it.

Open source built our community. The commercial product built our business. Both matter.

Twitch's magic is the chat. It's not passive viewing. It's a community watching together.

Marvel fans, Star Trek fans, Scrabble players. Different communities, same monetization mechanics.

I gave away all the YFI tokens. No pre-mine. No team allocation. People thought I was insane. The community disagreed.

We've built over 600 skateparks in underserved communities. Every kid deserves a place to skate.

Gamers are the most demanding consumers in the world. If your product is not actually the best, they will tell you — loudly, publicly, and correctly.

The Razer community does not just buy products. They identify with them. Build a product people identify with and you have something no competitor can price away.

East LA made me tough. It also made me grateful. I grew up fighting for everything. I want kids from East LA to know that coming from nothing is not a limitation — it is a fuel source.

This is our f***ing city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

The people who don't invest in their community don't deserve to call it their community.

Houston raised me. That city is in everything I do. That's not marketing — it's real.

Behance proved that if you build something essential for a community, the community will carry you. Creatives carried Behance to Adobe.

I sold EchoSign to Adobe and thought I’d retire. Then I started answering questions on Quora and accidentally built the world’s largest SaaS community.

I answer 100 SaaS questions a week because every question teaches me something about what’s breaking in the market.

The atomic network is the minimum viable community that makes a product useful. Find it and you’ve found the key to everything.

Community-based insurance is not a new idea. It is the original idea. Neighbors used to pool resources to protect each other. We are bringing that back with technology.

My wife Myra told me that buying the Patriots would be good for the community. She was right about everything.

A brand built around a community is more powerful than any amount of advertising.

Sports franchises are not just investments. They're communities. You have a responsibility to that community.

Every woman is an influencer. Glossier is built on that belief.

I started a blog because I wanted to hear real women talk about beauty, not editors telling them what to think.

The best investment you can make is in people — your employees, your community, your country.

We are not just building properties. We are building communities — places where people live, work, and create their futures.

We do not build developments. We build communities. The difference is everything — in the product, in the pricing, and in the customer relationship.

We never built a building just to sell units. We built neighborhoods. That is the only way to create lasting value.

You cannot build homes without building community. The moment a developer forgets that, they start making mistakes.

The best developers are not builders. They are community creators. The building is just the container.

Sacramento is not just a market. It is a community. And we made a commitment to this community that we intend to keep.

We are fully committed to keeping the Vikings in Minnesota for generations to come. This community deserves a franchise it can be proud of.

Detroit is a resilient city. It has been through things that would have broken other places. That resilience is in the DNA of this team.

Local businesses are the backbone of every community. If you help people find great ones, you are creating real economic value.

New York has a real startup community. It is not Silicon Valley, and that is actually a strength.

Open source is not just a development model. It is a values system about who gets to participate in building the future.

The thing I regret most is not being clearer earlier about our neutrality policy. It took years to get the culture right, and we lost a lot of good editors to flame wars in the meantime.

I am just a part of the community. The community built Wikipedia, not me.

We have always believed that business and community are one. When you build a factory, you build a future for those around it.

You cannot have a social licence to operate unless your presence in communities is genuinely positive for those communities. That is not charity — it is commercial necessity.

Northwest Arkansas is my home. It always has been. Building something that matters here is more satisfying than anything a bigger stage could offer.

We are not trying to be the biggest bank. We are trying to be the best bank for the communities we serve.

Education is the single best investment a community can make in its own future.

The strongest moat a company can have is a community that would be heartbroken if it disappeared.

Mistletoe is not just a fund. It is a collective of people who help each other build.

They allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible.

The best crypto research is done in public. Share your thesis, let it get attacked, and see if it survives.