Natasha Maxwell
Founder, Unfiltered
Why Founders Need Founder Friends
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Why Founders Need Founder Friends

How rediscovering Threads reminded me that every founder needs other founders—and where you can find your people too

Episode 5: Dear Algo, Send Me My People

No one understands a founder’s struggles quite like another founder. In this week’s episode, I share how rediscovering Threads gave me the community I didn’t even know I needed—and why finding your people matters at every stage of the founder journey.

Whether you’re just starting out, deep in the messy middle, or scaling to the top, isolation is real. But community? That’s where the magic happens.

In this episode:

  • Why founder isolation hits different (even when you’re not alone)

  • How I accidentally found my tribe on Threads—twice

  • The one strategy that’s working: show up to connect, not to sell

  • Why it’s soul-fulfilling to hear “I’m not alone in this”

  • How to find YOUR founder community (it doesn’t have to be Threads)

This week’s challenge: Think about where you can find genuine connection—not everyone trying to sell something, but true community. Maybe it’s Substack, maybe it’s Threads, maybe it’s somewhere else entirely. Your people are out there.

See you next week, Founder Fam.

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