Founder’s Field Guide
Episode 51 Helping Creators Build Communities
Founder’s Field Guide

Episode 51: Helping Creators Build Communities

Helping Creators Build Communities

Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks. We cover the differences between leadership and management, the lessons Gina learned building a similar business in the 2000s with Marc Andreessen, and the elements that make up a thriving community.

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[00:02:35] - [First question] - A period in Gina’s career of deep intensity that she learned from

[00:04:28] - Solving ways to preserve her energy as a high performing entrepreneur

[00:08:19] - How much of her day is spent doing things she wants to do 

[00:11:24] - What is unique to leadership that differs from management

[00:14:49] - The insight that led to what eventually became Mighty Networks

[00:27:19] - Enabling features of a community that Mighty Networks offers creators 

[00:31:51] - Key symptoms of a healthy online community

[00:37:35] - Differences between their emerging communities and the power of belonging

[00:41:38] - Turning movement and accomplishment into a software platform

[00:47:32] - Tying passion into purpose and the structure of a movement

[00:50:20] - The biggest potential risks and challenges that Mighty Networks faces

[00:52:56] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for Gina

Helping Creators Build Communities

Introduction

Patrick
My guest today is Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, which gives creators a platform to start, grow, and own their social communities. In our conversation, we cover the differences between leadership and management, the lessons Gina learned building a similar business in the two thousands with Mark Andreessen, and the elements that make up a thriving community. We talk about community design, finding ways to connect like-minded people, and why it's so important to create movement and what the future may hold for creators. Please enjoy this great conversation with Gina Bianchini.

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Patrick
So Gina, we were just talking about some of our favorite books and especially Bob Iger's books, specifically the opening of that book, when he's dealing with the opening of, I think, the Shanghai Disney world or Disneyland, and the horrific death of a child at another resort in Florida, all in the same morning, it's this harrowing experience. What in your professional career does that episode most call to mind? What was the period of just deep intensity in your work and what do you remember most from that episode?

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