Founded 2020 by ex-Teachable operators Sid Yadav and Rudy Santino. $30M+ raised from Bond Capital. The community platform positioned at the premium and enterprise end of the market versus Skool.
Skool is the community-plus-course platform of the paid-community wave. Founded 2019 by Sam Ovens. Alex and Leila Hormozi became partners in 2023. Flat $99/month, zero revenue share, 10,000+ paying communities.
Discord is the community layer of the creator economy. Founded 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy. ~200M+ MAU. $15B valuation (Series H, 2021). Confidential S-1 filed 2024. The largest gated content corpus on the consumer internet.
Social media done properly in 2026 is not about presence. It's about whether that presence feeds the citation layer AI engines retrieve from. The two-function playbook.
Discord. Substack. Patreon. Skool. Geneva. Circle. Reddit. The community layer of the creator economy, mapped.
