Kyle Ford uses a running metaphor to argue that community builders should embrace starting with zero members. Focus on helping people move from point A to point B, nurture your early members, and trust that growth will follow.
All right, I've been to the mountaintop, and I'm here to tell you this. Everybody starts at zero. When I started running, I did not know how to run. I came running for 15 seconds. Now I ran eight marathons. Like, it's. Literally, everybody starts at zero. Because that's. That's the part of the process. Like, if you started off and you got millions of people in the community, then you start at zero, right? But if you start at zero, it's a part of the journey, supernatural journey, to figure out that there's this thread that you're trying to help, right? And I think for a lot of people, they think, oh, it's the money, it's the. You know, all this other stuff. No, like, really what it is about is helping people get from point A to point B. And for me, that's from not running to running, right? So if you focus on that and you continue to foster those people, the numbers will come. Literally, the numbers will come like that.
