Shreman Shrestha is the Head of Community for the Friends of Lenny’s Slack community. This community comes bundled with the Paid subscription for Lenny’s Newsletter and at the time of recording there are 17k+ members in here. In this episode, Shre discusses how this community is able to organise 200+ in-person meetups per year, challenges with organising a great mentor matching program, working with volunteers and more. Resources: • Beginner Maps - free crash course on building a community business - ⁠https://beginnermaps.com⁠ • Curated Connections, the community engagement app - ⁠https://curatedconnections.io/⁠ • Shreman's Twitter - https://twitter.com/itsDrDrewithaSh/ • Lenny's community + newsletter - https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/community • Nityesh's Twitter (host) - https://twitter.com/nityeshaga/ Chapters: 0:00 Intro 03:09 Lenny's community persona 04:33 Why people join the community 09:12 Increasing retention 10:52 Shre's story 13:10 Shre's responsibilities 17:52 Member-led city meetups 22:18 Guidelines for meetup hosts 25:29 Finding hosts 26:45 Financials of a meetup 28:21 Dealing with low attendance 31:46 Mentor matching program 37:07 Workbook for mentor and mentee 38:54 Building a great volunteer program 42:49 Advice for creators with audience 48:33 Observing members to get new ideas