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Leon Lin
Leon Lin

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Community as a Concept

Community as a Concept

The MIT Tech Model Railroad Club's 1946 founding directly influenced hacker culture and led to Spacewar!, the earliest multi-computer video game.

  • Strong communities lower customer acquisition costs by cultivating engaged, fanatical believers who support the business.
  • The Network Working Group's 1969 Request for Comments process, created to build the ARPANET, became a standard procedure for modern software development.
  • Y Combinator's 2005 launch demonstrated that combining capital with community provides a competitive advantage in early-stage investing.

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