Best Mohammed Rafy Podcasts (2024)

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Yaro Bagriy of Playgroup on building creator communities and how to create engagement in a community 35:32

3y ago35:32

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Yaro Bagriy is the creator of Playgroup, a new-age community-building platform. He previously started a community for newsletter enthusiasts called Newsletter Crew, which later got acquired. In this episode, we discuss growth and engagement strategies for communities, the ideal size of the community, and why we should build paid & private communiti…

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Paras Pundir on starting a career in community building and building communities for brands 35:09

3y ago35:09

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In this bonus episode, Paras and I pick topics and discuss how to start a career in community building, why is building a community for a brand/business different from creator and what should be the ideal community platform to hosts communities. Paras is known as The Community Guy, is a community builder who founded Community Folks, a community for…

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Community is relationships. Relationships are give & take. Kim Johnson, Head of Community at Geneva 39:35

3+ y ago39:35

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Kim Johnson, Head of Community at Geneva talks about her time at Glossier building community ambassadors program and other initiatives which created experiences to celebrate people. She talks about challenges a community leader can face and how you can balance scale and growth with true community and connection. She discussed her ideal community-bu…

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Having a paid community can lead to better outcome & member experience, Emily & Tom, Co-founders of Propel 29:05

3+ y ago29:05

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Emily Pik and Tom Guthrie, co-founders of Propel - a cohort-based private community join me on Community Stories to talk about their day to day operations of running a paid community and why it's good to have a paid community, defining north star of a community, how to select members for the paid community by learning their motivation, how not to d…

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Ian Vanagas, Building an ideal community platform and the future of internet communities 46:33

3+ y ago46:33

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In this episode, Ian talks about how status works in online communities and dive into community-building platforms like Discord, Reddit and explain why is Discord winning. Discord won by building 10x better spaces for communities. By selling status, they have also managed to capture more value from those communities than other platforms. Link to Ia…

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Arvid Kahl, The Bootstrapped Founder, Author of Zero to Sold and now writing The Embedded Entrepreneur 1:01:53

3+ y ago1:01:53

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Arvid Kahl joins me on Community Stories to talk about the audience-first approach, building relationships and his latest book The Embedded Entrepreneur, prev Audience First. Audience-first means exactly what it sounds like: you start with the audience. Arvid shares his lesson building a bootstrap business, how he leveraged the audience to write hi…

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John, Founder of Yen and creator of YEN.FM - daily digest exploring community-centric world 54:09

3+ y ago54:09

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In this episode, John talks about building communities, newsletters and how all that he does like sending a daily newsletter, engaging with the audience on Twitter, engaging with a community on Indie Hackers is intentional and aligned with his business objectives. He explores the topic of creating YEN.FM. John is on a mission to democratize communi…

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KP, Founder of Cuppa and now Program Director of On Deck No-Code Fellowship (ODNC) | Building Audience on the Internet & Building Communities 42:49

3+ y ago42:49

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In this episode, KP shares the story on building the leverage on the internet by building multiple products and creating Cuppa: a 1-1 virtual coffee platform with talent sourced from Twitter. He is currently working as a Program Director of On Deck No-Code Fellowship. Link to Cuppa Link to KP's Twitter Link to On Deck Link to Rafy's Twitter Link to…

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Building B2B branded communites and creating content with Tara Hunt of Phlywheel 1:05:18

3+ y ago1:05:18

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In this episode, Tara talks about brands building communities, the intersection between marketing and communities. About Phlywheel - Phlywheel was founded by Toronto-based strategic marketing firm, Truly Inc. Truly is an award-winning firm that has worked with Nokia, REALTOR.ca, CAMSO, Michelin, CPA and many more. Link to Phlywheel. Link to Truly I…

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Growing a paid Content Marketing Community 21:58

3+ y ago21:58

21:58

In this episode, Christina shares her story behind creating ContentUK community to gather content marketers in the UK and why she decided to pivot from free to the paid community. Link to the community ContentUK. Link to Christina's Twitter. Link to Rafy's Twitter. Link to Uncommunity's Newsletter. Learn about Uncommunity. Support Uncommunity by bu…

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Growing a paid community to $800 MRR by Charlie Ward of Weekend Club 44:10

3+ y ago44:10

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In this episode, Charlie explains how he created the #1 Indie Hackers accountability community based out of the UK. He also shares his learning on how he pivoted to online-only community from real life and what he learned by doing so. About Weekend Club - Weekend Club is the #1 solo founder support community. They offer weekly, remote Saturday deep…

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Building developer communities and contributing to open source organizations like Mozilla 45:27

3+ y ago45:27

45:27

In the second episode of Uncommunity, Rafy speaks with Shreyas to learn more about how he started his career in the community management space by contributing to open source communities such as Mozilla and how he thinks about developer communities and impact on the ecosystem. Shreyas brings more than 9 years of experience and has landed remote oppo…

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0-100 events in 14 months - Building The Product Folks Community 42:49

3+ y ago42:49

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In this pilot episode, Rafy speaks with Suhas to learn more about how Suhas and his team built The Product Folks community from scratch. After 14 months of hard work and consistency, they have been able to get product managers and founders from Airbnb, Stripe, Superhuman to speak in their online meetups. Link to The Product Folks. Link to Suhas's T…