Chris Samila is the co-founder of Partnership Leaders - a strong bootstrapped business that provides community, connections and resources for partnership professionals. This episode is supported by Curated Connections (https://curatedconnections.io/) - a simple matchmaking tool with an easy-to-justify pricing. In this episode we discuss: Organising conferences and city-wide events with a volunteer-led strategy What does a partnership professional do? How Partnership Leaders (PL) charges their members Creating resources that create a strong hook Why they use a paid Slack to host the community How he turned an email thread into a community Building culture in the early days Charging for a free community Reducing churn Tech stack for running the PL business Chris' hiring philosophy