Kyle Ford on why you can't manufacture community and what actually works instead. Focus on being a good host, give real value in the first four months, and let your founding members own it. Flexibility for alumni matters more than forcing engagement.
Can't force community, right? So it's got to be something that where like the, the, you know, our first class, the founding class, they really love each other. And you know, it is a four month program. We tried to design it so that it would have tremendous amount of value in the. Over the course of those four months. Now many of our first fivers want to continue on, but we're giving them the option of, you know, you can continue on or you know, you don't have to stay, obviously, and having that flexibility now like what. We just try to be in service of them, right? It's community. We are just in service of what their needs are and their needs are shifting. And so we needed to calibrate, you know, what it, what's right for that first group. And you know, for our second class, it might, we might be creating something that's completely different, but they'll likely then want to spill into this. You know, it'll be a growing community over time is our, is our hope. Anyway.
That'S, that's such a good point. We tend to think of us as the host. Like this is our community. For us, it's their community.
