Murtaza Bambot is the cofounder and CEO of Heartbeat - an awesome platform for building online communities. It combines the powers of Slack, Notion, Luma, Meetsy, Zoom and other platforms that community builders often need to stitch to get a functioning community. In this episode we talk about: 00:00 How Murtaza keeps it together when times are difficult 03:40 Favourite communities on Heartbeat 09:34 Heartbeat's community Hearth - how it started and how it helps them 19:47 How Murtaza thinks about hiring as an early stage founder 28:11 Day to day work as co-founder at Heartbeat 36:24 How Murtaza learnt to code even after failing coding classes in college 39:46 Why Murtaza quit building to focus on selling 43:55 How to nail down sales as an introvert 49:53 Homeless but keeping it all together by being mission oriented 58:54 Building your (interconnected) network 01:05:29 Doubling down on what works --- --- --- Links and Resources: Heartbeat - https://www.heartbeat.chat/ TOGKnowledge - https://www.joeedelman.com/togknowledge-community The Cat and Dog Coexistence Club - https://www.praiseworthypets.com/ Founding Sales - https://www.foundingsales.com/ --- --- --- Thanks for listening! If you have come this far you’ll love other episodes. But you probably don’t have 1 hr every week to listen to all the episodes. That’s why you should sign up for our newsletter. We recently started it to share the key insights from these conversations in a more digestible, readable format. So go to beginnermaps.com to sign up for our weekly newsletter.