Ryan Paugh

you know, helping you essentially make the right connections, curating the right resources for you.

You get access to participate in a lot of our brand building and media opportunities and work with our editorial team to craft the message and build influence.

And you get access to our business services library, which will basically help you probably find deals and discounts and mostly everything that you might need early in your startup career.

Founder Society was started a little over a year ago and was one of our first communities to come out of what we've learned through building YEC, which was our first baby and really kind of guided us on our journey to new communities like Founder Society and boards.

Sure, so Towner Society has roughly 500 members.

So when we first start any community, there are some free-signing members for the first year to basically seed the community and get it to start.

But at this point, we, you know, threw our first round of the duel, so everyone is actually paying us.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, that's the math.

That's, you know, essentially what we're making off of, you know, our membership dues.

And, you know, we have also other ways that we help our members and other services that we offer through partners that help them, you know, enhance the experience.

If they want more exposure for, you know, PR and media opportunities, we have partners that can help them craft more content and, you know, build more thought leadership through our platform.

Exactly.

So Forbes Council is $1,200 per year currently.

And we currently have several councils that are launched already.

We have the Forbes Technology Council, which is for CTOs and CIOs.

Forbes Coaches Council, which is for business and career coaches.

Forbes Nonprofit Council for nonprofits.

Forbes Agency, which is focused on marketing and PR agencies, and Forbes Legal Council, which is focused on legal representation at the executive level in companies and also people running successful law firms.

And we're about to launch Forbes Communications Council, which is meant for communications and PR executives within our organizations.