Dennis H. Lewis examines whether people stick around for community rather than product. The conversation explores what actually keeps users engaged once they've tried what you built.
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I sat down with a billionaire once who told me that people are going to come for the product but they're going to stay for the community. You think that's true?
I think that they come for both because if you're not building the community as you're building the product, you're behind the game. So I don't think it's a nay I dare criticize something that a billionaire might have said, although if he builds electric cars, I'd have a lot of criticism. But you know, having said that, they both, they're both really important. It doesn't have to be a perfect product. It needs to solve a problem. But then you have to have a community. You have to have an audience. You have to have somebody that wants it and you have to be. And it's not just that they have to exist because there probably is somebody out there that exists that wants what you're building, but you have to be able to find them.