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How a $30 Million Community Runs on Volunteer Moderators
Most brand communities assume you need a big paid team to succeed. This episode unpacks a counterexample: a 200,000-member Slack community for product managers that generates over $30 million in annual revenue from a single paid tier — while the day-to-day moderation, events, and onboarding are run almost entirely by volunteers. Lucas and Luna walk through how the community recruited, trained, and retained a 40-person volunteer moderator team, the incentives that keep them engaged (none of them are equity or cash), and why relying on unpaid labor actually improved the community's quality…
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