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What are the most successful paid communities?

The only one I currently know is trends.co, are there any other majorly successful paid communities (could be bundled with smth else but main emphasis is on the community) ? Companies that make 7 figures and above??

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on August 21, 2020
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    Interesting. Trends were focused on being a newsletter (over a community) just a couple months ago.

    There is:

    Membership sites have existed for years, I think the tech is generally (and slowly) getting better for it.

    I would love to hear of more examples.

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    Lenny's Newsletter is a great paid newsletter, as @rosiesherry already mentioned!

    I'd also add that Dave Gerhardt's (CMO at Privvy and formerly Drift) has a great one: https://www.patreon.com/davegerhardt

    Same with John Bonini's Some Good Content community: https://www.patreon.com/somegoodcontent

    Interested in hearing what other paid communities everyone knows of!

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    I'm not sure if anyone knows about Stratechery here. It is a great strategy, tech, geo-politics website cum newsletter to subscribe to.

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