Bailey Richardson (@baileyelaine), partner at People & Company, and co-author of Get Together, and Rei Wang (@heyreiwang), founder of The Grand and former CEO of the Dorm Room Fund Investment Team, join Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- The companies they’re creating and the unique insight about communities that lies behind each company.

- How they define community, and what makes a community different from other things like networks.

- How communities change over their lifetimes.

- The differences between the big companies in the social media space and how they’ve evolved over time.

- Whether community startups can be venture-backable.

- The future of countries and religions as communities.

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