Community is the New Moat!

You know your company has a vibrant community when non-employees are volunteering to host events. CMX’s survey found the majority of businesses allow volunteers to run events on their behalf. Startups like Gatsby, Databricks, and Confluent have done a great job empowering the community to run their own events. For example, Kafka reached 50,000 meet... See more

% of code contributed by non-employees

# of members leaving the community

# of followers

# of new member sign-up

# of comments created in reaction to the community’s posts

Average number of attendees per event over time

Open source communities:

# of events