Patrick Crowley

#expert-led-drop-ins - July 22, 2025 at 05:28 PM

Excited!

#ask-the-community - July 22, 2025 at 03:58 PM

@Mohamed Yousuf a great person to chat to here!

#growth-and-marketing - July 22, 2025 at 09:16 AM

This is excellent - The regional element for new Markets is v smart

#growth-and-marketing - July 22, 2025 at 09:13 AM

#growth-and-marketing - July 22, 2025 at 09:11 AM

€7.99 - which seems expensive/misaligned when compared w Netflix & other subscriptions

#growth-and-marketing - July 22, 2025 at 08:58 AM

I personally will just keep ads… will be interesting to see how it affects their user base

#growth-and-marketing - July 22, 2025 at 08:57 AM

@here What do we think about Instagram starting to charge users in the EU for an ad-free experience?

#ask-the-community - July 21, 2025 at 06:54 PM

Hey Gijs - best practice is definitely to create a country specific batch as opposed to having an incorrect plug.

If you're just looking to do a bit of testing it may be fine, but long term I'd fear that it'd undermine your brand somewhat :)

#linkedin-love - July 18, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Legend - thanks Ruben

#ask-the-community - July 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM

Love this! 🙌 @Lars van der Wijst

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lars-van-der-wijst-3282411a0_10000-gratis-cloudpillo-kussens-voor-bewoners-activity-7351578046757277696-iBvC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACj8654BLyNulYXkiS3Gy8N4oTmXEZD-gWM

#all-hands - July 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM

Thanks everyone! Really enjoyed the conversation 🚀

#introductions - July 15, 2025 at 06:54 PM

Welcome Cham!

#linkedin-love - July 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM

Nice! He's great & it's hard to find photographers you can trust!

#growth-and-marketing - July 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM

This is great!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniellgoldstein_productmarketing-product-messaging-activity-7350562025715994624-zR3Z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACj8654BLyNulYXkiS3Gy8N4oTmXEZD-gWM

#linkedin-love - July 14, 2025 at 07:32 PM

🐐
https://www.linkedin.com/company/venice-founders-network/

#venice-newsletter - July 14, 2025 at 07:01 PM

[July 13th - Venice: Amsterdam Event, Holiday Planning, KPIs, and More](https://venice-founders.kit.com/posts/venice-amsterdam-event-holiday-planning-kpis-and-more?_gl=1*l64jqg_gcl_au*MTg0NjM5ODM3OS4xNzQ4MjYzMDY1LjE3ODk2MTMyMzguMTc1MTQ2NzM4Mi4xNzUxNDY3Mzg3)*

#venice-newsletter - July 14, 2025 at 07:00 PM

[July 6th - Venice: State of Play, Funding News, and More](https://venice-founders.kit.com/posts/venice-state-of-play-funding-news-and-more?_gl=1*vnnf7m_gcl_au*MTg0NjM5ODM3OS4xNzQ4MjYzMDY1LjE3ODk2MTMyMzguMTc1MTQ2NzM4Mi4xNzUxNDY3Mzg3)*

#linkedin-love - July 14, 2025 at 03:52 PM

Love it! Whats the idea?

#linkedin-love - July 14, 2025 at 02:37 PM

€350 for 2 hours which is very reasonable! (he has a two hour minimum but the price includes post production)

#linkedin-love - July 14, 2025 at 02:36 PM

He's great! Came well recommended and I'll definitely be using him for future events

#linkedin-love - July 14, 2025 at 01:27 PM

@here Please see the Event Photos below!

The brief was to get images that Founders could use to build their personal brands on LinkedIn... Think he nailed it!
(also share your post into this channel so that we can all comment and like each others posts to work the algorithm a bit! 🚀)

https://collect.wetransfer.com/board/s00zzd8fkgmsewo3420250710144650

#growth-and-marketing - July 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM

We should have a memes channel!

#growth-and-marketing - July 14, 2025 at 09:53 AM

I agree, we're going to drown in AI slob for a while... until people realise it doesn't resonate

#all-hands - July 14, 2025 at 09:16 AM

@here ✅

#growth-and-marketing - July 11, 2025 at 06:47 PM

Worth a look

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-rowdy_21-million-in-90days-with-ai-influencers-activity-7348689954455048192-Jzli?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACj8654BLyNulYXkiS3Gy8N4oTmXEZD-gWM

#all-hands - July 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM

<@U08AG6NPG11> flagging! 😅

#growth-and-marketing - July 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM

I hate that this conversation always circles back here … but there’s no smoke without fire!

#growth-and-marketing - July 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM

European system often doesn’t support ambitious, capital intensive projects to the same extent

#growth-and-marketing - July 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM

Loved this. My only note (and it’s the typical one) is that they’re treating this as a founder problem when it's actually a capital problem.

#ask-the-community - July 09, 2025 at 09:31 AM

If anyone would like to bring any product samples, please do! 🙌

#ask-the-community - July 09, 2025 at 09:31 AM

@here Really excited to see everyone in Soho House this evening! We thought it would be helpful to send a deck (HERE!) of those attending to help break the ice! 🧊

Clicking photos brings you through to Founders LinkedIn's & Brand names brings you through to everyone's site :)

Excited for a great night!! 🎉

p.s. There are several people who were marked as +1's so may not show up in the deck!

#ask-the-community - July 08, 2025 at 01:23 PM

Thanks for flagging! I have updated the calendar invite

#ask-the-community - July 08, 2025 at 01:22 PM

Thanks for flagging! <@U08A1P055F1> The event is 5-8pm CET tomorrow as per the initial invitation 🙂

#linkedin-love - July 06, 2025 at 12:30 PM

@here This is my favourite follow on LinkedIn fyi!

Great example of ‘building in public’ 🚀

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/harry-cooke-99a57aa9_building-in-public-update-june-month-9-activity-7345820324510265344-l8pU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACj8654BLyNulYXkiS3Gy8N4oTmXEZD-gWM

#growth-and-marketing - July 06, 2025 at 10:31 AM

<@U08AT406ZD0> sounds like a great way to keep engagement up - again do you track any customer metrics around this?

#growth-and-marketing - July 05, 2025 at 03:12 PM

<@U08AT406ZD0> Love this - you’ve a very good product for it. I take it a lot of the communication is around children using your products as opposed to your brand specifically?

#growth-and-marketing - July 05, 2025 at 11:14 AM

<@U092V3XA4Q6> How do you typically measure this output?

#growth-and-marketing - July 04, 2025 at 05:04 PM

Both excellent examples - but equally neither were deliberately forced through?

#growth-and-marketing - July 04, 2025 at 01:00 PM

Think I’m going to go deep on this over the weekend and find some examples

#growth-and-marketing - July 04, 2025 at 01:00 PM

I think you can hide that, which equally makes it all a bit faceless … really hard to execute regardless of what angle you take on it

#growth-and-marketing - July 04, 2025 at 12:09 PM

I'm struggling to find an example of a brand successfully building a town square - would love to see some examples though :)

#venice-newsletter - July 04, 2025 at 11:35 AM

[June 29th - Venice: Taking Venice to the Next Level, Instagram x Google, and More](https://venice-founders.kit.com/posts/venice-taking-venice-to-the-next-level-instagram-x-google-and-more?_gl=1*19x5fml_gcl_au*MTg0NjM5ODM3OS4xNzQ4MjYzMDY1LjE3ODk2MTMyMzguMTc1MTQ2NzM4Mi4xNzUxNDY3Mzg3)*

#venice-newsletter - July 04, 2025 at 11:34 AM

June 22nd - Venice: Amsterdam Speaker Lineup, Creative Marketing, US vs. UK Trends, and More

#growth-and-marketing - July 04, 2025 at 11:32 AM

I'm seeing a lot of Brands launch their own WhatsApp/newsletter communities -
My thoughts -
1. As a consumer I've only ever been in them to avail of Discounts
2. They're rarely actually communities - It's an audience, as its still one person announcing to many people (whereas community should be many-to-many)
3. I ultimately feel you'd be better off leaning into the communities that already exist around your products i.e. if you sell Surfboards, make content with / sponsor a Surf school.
Who here is planning on trying this? Would love to hear eveyone's thoughts!

p.s. If anyone would like my thoughts on community building more generally, please feel free to dm me 🙌

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hugh-hamilton-green_we-give-early-access-to-our-whatsa[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACj8654BLyNulYXkiS3Gy8N4oTmXEZD-gWM

#ask-the-community - July 04, 2025 at 10:00 AM

I haven't come across anyone to date but will ask around now 🙌

#ask-the-community - July 04, 2025 at 09:59 AM

@Thijs Roelofs Great person to weigh in here!

#linkedin-love - July 02, 2025 at 04:55 PM

Hahaha I know - clothing arguably the hardest product out there?

#linkedin-love - July 02, 2025 at 03:58 PM

Interesting - ultimately the quality just isn’t where it needs to be yet?

#linkedin-love - July 02, 2025 at 03:36 PM

Do you have more hard numbers around performance between given campaigns? and what do you put this down to? customers basically not being able to connect with computer generated imagery?

#linkedin-love - July 02, 2025 at 03:34 PM

this is a v interesting piece - thanks for sharing!