find your best friends in the founder grind

Joined October 2025
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If youโ€™re a founder looking to plug into some London events, hereโ€™s the link: linktr.ee/plugged.founders
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Feeling the fomo? Check out our events for this year. come on thruuu: luma.com/plugged
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what japanese swordfighting taught me about community design most networking events suck because only the polished version of you is welcome. the rest gets left outside. if everyone's only half in the room, real connection becomes impossible.
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that mosaic of spaces is how real belonging scales, not by forcing conformity, but by offering multiple ways to plug in. the result? deep, life-defining relationships. roommates. partners. best friends. ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.
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these people see you at your highest, lowest & everything in between. this is what we're building at PLUGGED. comment 'ROADMAP' for the complete 15 step roadmap to save your community from collapsing in 6 months.
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your events suck and here's why... at their core, communities exist to solve the problem of belonging. but we skip straight to trying to create that sense of belonging without asking the deeper question: ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ?
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we contain ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž๐ฌ. you at 8am โ‰  you at 10pm โ‰  you at 4am but most spaces only welcome: โ†’the polished self โ†’the productive self โ†’the composed self people shrink to fit. everything else stays outside. no one is truly present = connection becomes impossible.
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to build communities for real people, not personas, we must design for depth & complexity. this is PLUGGED. if you're a founder, come thru. DM "CHECKLIST" for 12 things to look for before joining any startup community.
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your startup failing isn't the risk. failing alone is. the lone genius myth is everywhere in startup land, but anyone who's actually built something knows that's bullshit. behind every "solo" founder is a network of people who became functional infrastructure.
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this is why community isn't soft stuff. it's a force multiplier. when connection runs deep: - talent circulates faster - collabs compound - people build bolder, quicker velocity increases where real community exists. but you gotta choose wisely.
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DM me "CHECKLIST" and I'll send you the 12 things to look for before joining any startup community. full breakdown here: lnkd.in/e35_v-uG
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๐Œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ at our Founders Retreatโ€ฆ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ NOW What began as the perfect week of deep work, wild adventures, and late-night bonding, with our good friends at @SuperteamUK , turned into pure chaos.
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๐Œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ at our Founders Retreatโ€ฆ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง EPISODE 2 4 traitors vs 18 townsfolk. Last week, justice was not served sadly - 1 civilian killed. 1 civilian eliminated. All 4 traitors survived.
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Janine didnโ€™t choose the founder life, the founder life chose her humans of foundertown ep8 during foundertown, our annual retreat, we turned on the cameras and let our community speak from the heart. in collab with @superteamuk produced with love by @silas of @poduca
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what does it take to succeed as a solo founder? humans of foundertown ep7 during foundertown, our annual retreat, we turned on the cameras and let our community speak from the heart. Finlay Doyle shares his, secret to getting things done!
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find your best friends in the founder grind @pluggedfounders
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nearly going to zero in the bank account didnโ€™t break them, it made them stronger human of foundertown ep5 during foundertown, our annual retreat, we turned on the cameras and let our community speak from the heart.
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