Building a $15M+ Community - with Pavilion's Sam Jacobs
Dec 04, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 71
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Episode description
This week on How To Win: Sam Jacobs of Pavilion, who built a $15 million community learning business from scratch. You’ll hear how he leveraged LinkedIn for organic growth, the importance of creating sub-communities, and key mistakes he made after raising VC money that took the focus away from his core customers.
Key moments:
00:50 - Describing what the company does
06:20 - Describing the issues with e-learning
11:30 - Issues with raising money
14:20 - Cutting back
17:40 - Explaining how to grow communities
22:30 - Advice for founders
24:30 - Lessons learned
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Pavilion
Sam Jacobs's LinkedIn
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