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Jason Hanson's avatar

This is excellent. Trail lawyers, of all people, have a similar technique: review every 'misstep' and coming up with 5 'to dos' that will prevent that from happening again. It also transforms a less than satisfactory experience into a learning experience, which if not fun, is at least close to it.

Jordan D's avatar

Enjoyed this Greg. All the best

Thomaz's avatar

Wow! Thanks for sharing

Hakan Ozturk | The CS Café's avatar

Great read Greg, inspiring.

Benjamin Ships 🚀's avatar

How do you find opportunities like that to invest in badass startups like Loom? Even just having a chance to say yes/no to stuff like that sounds amazing.

Joao Aguiam's avatar

Sometimes you just have to start and iterate from it.

Great example of how they built Loom into an amazing product and company known by everyone now.

Timur Karimbaev's avatar

Great insights on building with Community Empire! The approach of starting small and validating with real users before scaling is exactly what I'm doing with my SaaS. It's fascinating how you almost hit $4M - the journey and learnings are more valuable than the outcome. Looking forward to seeing more about monetizing communities!

Johann Arnason's avatar

What is a ‘loom’

Paul Welch The Finance Expert's avatar

Really interesting read thanks for sharing Greg!

Jason Mans's avatar

Greg, do you have any pointers to look for UK focused business ideas that i can start as a solo person with a laptop. I was playing with base44. I love your idea browser. I don’t have loads of capital. and i don’t have a large network. And also done applying for work and getting rejected. And trying out as a delivery driver, no offense to them just made me appreciate them more and made me get motivated to sort something out independently.

siddi vinayaka's avatar

Hey Greg,

Crazy story on the Loom leverage. Reading about missed upside like that always stings, but it actually made me think about a massive piece of leverage you're currently leaving on the table with Community Empire.

Right now, your community MRR and agency funnels are strictly capped by the English-speaking market. You have a massive, hungry demographic of founders in Latin America and India who want to buy your frameworks, but the language barrier is in the way.

At ToneBridge, we help high-ticket community founders unlock international MRR without recording a single new asset. We take your existing videos, clone your exact voice, and flawlessly lip-sync your content into top global languages (like Spanish and Hindi).

The immediate outcomes for you:

Instant TAM Expansion: You can launch a "Community Empire LATAM" tier overnight.

Zero Added Labor: You don't record anything new. We localize the high-value assets you’ve already created.

Passive MRR Stacking: Every international member you acquire using the localized content is pure profit on top of your existing funnel.

I actually grabbed a 60-second clip from one of your recent framework breakdowns and ran it through our system so you can hear the quality.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QBYzqg5Outf1FH7Ryo9oQi8ym15VjfWe/view?usp=sharing

If you're open to effortlessly adding a new international MRR stream this quarter, let's chat. I am based in India—feel free to shoot me a message on WhatsApp or call me directly at: +91 7981595068.

Best,

Siddi

Founder, ToneBridge

Boring Quinn's avatar

The 'no thanks' that aged the worst. Respect for sharing it publicly though.