Offerings / WhatsApp Community
A founder group you will not mute
Most startup WhatsApp groups die the same way: a few hundred members, unchecked promotion, forwarded links, and cold pitches in everyone's DMs. EA's community is moderated on purpose. Promotions are gated, introductions are made directly, and the people in it were screened the same way the rooms are.
- Entry
- Requested, then reviewed
- Promotions
- Gated to a slot
- Introductions
- Direct, not broadcast
- Mixer access
- Before public listing
What you get out of it
A group is only worth the notifications it costs you. Here is the trade.
First look at every room
New mixers open to the community before they are listed publicly. Seats in the smaller rooms usually go at that stage.
Introductions that are actually made
Ask for a specific kind of person and a moderator connects you to them directly, rather than broadcasting your request to everyone and hoping.
Peers at your stage, not an audience
Founders, investors and operators from the same screened pool as the mixers, so a question about pricing, hiring or a term sheet gets answered by someone who has done it.
A place to keep the conversation going
The useful part of a mixer is usually the follow-up. The group is where the conversation from Thursday evening continues on Monday.
The house rules
Published, so nobody has to discover one by breaking it. Moderation is what keeps the group worth being in.
Promotions are gated
Launches, hiring posts and product news go through the moderators and into the slot kept for them. They are not banned. They are scheduled.
No mass-forwards
Forwarded chains, event spam from elsewhere and link drops are removed. If it was not written for this group, it does not belong in it.
No cold pitching members
Membership is not a lead list. Pitching someone in DMs because you found them here is the fastest way out of the group.
Ask specifically, answer generously
A precise ask gets a useful answer. The group works because people reply to each other, not because it is large.
What is said here stays here
Numbers, term sheets and war stories shared in the group are shared in confidence, exactly as they would be in the room.
How you get in
There is no open join link. Entry is requested and reviewed, the same way the rooms are.
- 01
Request an invite
WhatsApp the team or send the form below with who you are and what you are building. There is no open join link on purpose.
- 02
Quick review
We check the same thing the mixers check: that you are actively building or investing, and that the group is useful to you and you to it.
- 03
You are added
You get the group, the house rules, and first sight of mixers before they are listed publicly.
From people in the group
The only startup group they have not muted.
Ask for an invite
Tell us who you are and what you are building. If the group is not useful to you yet, we will say so and point you at a mixer instead.