Christiana Cromer - How to build a community at scale!

🤙🏻 About the Guest - Christiana Cromer is the community human who has been doing it since she was in her college. She currently works as a Community Manager at Descript where she is looking after a community of over 15,000 people on a single Discord server. She has worked earlier as a Community Marketing Manager at Coiled.🤙🏻 About the Host - Sharath Kuruganty is the Head of the Community at @ThreadoHQ. Currently, he is building Community Champs, a tight-knit community of world-class community leaders.🤙🏻 Timestamps00.00 - Introduction to the podcast03.40 - Falling in love with community building10.47 - How much being an extrovert helps in hosting events15.36 - What and who is a Community Marketing Manager23.13 - How community plays a role in building a startup & benefits it brings28.35 - Craziest community stories in Christiana’s experience working at Descript34.13 - Launching the Descript Sounding Board38.31 - How to find signals that indicate success of an initiative39.38 - Pros & Cons of launching in Public42.44 - How should community builders write their criteria of who is a power user44.51 - What does Descript do to keep the team motivated48.31 - Scaling the Discord community to 15k members53.12 - Differentiating between the noise in the community and spotting the right feedback and people56.24 - Learnings from hosting events and doing community in college1.01.28 - Closing thoughts and outro to the podcast🤙🏻 Where to find Krystal Wu  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianacromer/🤙🏻 Where to find Sharath - https://twitter.com/5harath?s=20