Ryan Paugh
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I'm here now.
You went dark for a minute.
It's YEC and CommunityCo, which is our portfolio company for all the communities that we're building, just like YEC.
No, Community Co.
is more of a collection of ideas and philosophies and yeah, some technology baked in as well.
But what we do is take everything that we've learned through building YEC about helping people
Build social capital and use it to their advantage as an entrepreneur and apply it to other areas.
Business owners being just one of those verticals.
It could be people within a Fortune 500 company.
It could be a solopreneur.
It could be a CEO or an entry-level type individual.
We want to...
to take advantage and leverage social capital and understand and benefit them in their career.
Scott's our biz dev guy.
He's the one who is out pounding the pavement, being able to share our ideas with people that we'd like to partner with, like Forbes, who we just started working with and are building a dozen professional communities for in 2016.
Does Forbes pay you for that, by the way, or is that just your goodwill?
Indeed, it's a joint venture, not just goodwill.
We're nice guys, but we're not that nice.
Not a charity, right?
Right, right.