Building Communities in 2019 with Bailey Richardson and Rei Wang

Bailey Richardson (@baileyelaine), partner at People & Company, and co-author of Get Together, and Rei Wang (@heyreiwang), founder of The Grand and former CEO of the Dorm Room Fund Investment Team, join Erik on this episode.They discuss: - The companies they’re creating and the unique insight about communities that lies behind each company. - How they define community, and what makes a community different from other things like networks. - How communities change over their lifetimes. - The differences between the big companies in the social media space and how they’ve evolved over time. - Whether community startups can be venture-backable.- The future of countries and religions as communities.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.