Takeoff #4 ✨
Hello tribe! Presenting Takeoff, our weekly product community newsletter that has the perfect balance of everything you need - weekly recap, insights, news, stories and memes. What else do you want?
“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle, people!”
We are starting this week’s edition by remembering one of the greatest physicists of all time, Richard Feynman
His work and words always spellbind us 🌟
Since that picture has set the vibe
Let’s get started! 😊
😇 What’s new at Airtribe
Cohort 2 is taking off 🚀
After the massive success of his founding cohort, Anup Ostwal is getting back with cohort 2 of Getting into the million dollar sales club. A 10-week long course to help you break into SaaS sales. You’ll get the skills, the network, and the support to add rocket fuel to your SaaS sales career.
⌛Let’s go back in time
Twitter spaces by Shruti and Anil 🥳
Last Thursday evening, we hosted a Twitter spaces discussion with Shruti and Anil who were the first Indian couple to get their marriage registered on the blockchain.
Luckily, we were joined by their digital priest who was responsible for all the NFT minting along with some friends of the couple who attended the wedding.
It was such a fun discussion where we also got some insights and thoughts about the future of NFTs and blockchain. You can take a look at this beautiful NFT 😍
Another insightful Sunday morning 🌞
Every weekend we aim to provide value and learnings to our tribe to help them keep growing. Today, Bhavik S Minhas, content strategist at Longshot.ai and an alumnus at Airtribe hosted a community session on his journey of a successful Product Hunt launch.
He awestruck his listeners with strategies and insights that can be useful for those looking to launch their product.
We hope you found the session useful. It’s just the beginning. Get ready for more..
🏢 Straight from the Airtribe HQ
Simon Sinek says "Start with Why”. What was your "why" when you started Airtribe?
I had been a lifelong learner and an early adopter of popular education platforms like Coursera and Udacity for a long time. Though I loved the quality of educators and the content but I didn’t like the isolated way of learning. The sense of belongingness and collaboration with others taking the same course were nowhere to be found.
My hypothesis was validated when I became a part of some online learning communities in 2020. I saw a drastic change in how people were learning. The learners joined such programs to learn specific things from someone with experience while being a part of a supportive community of peers. They all had similar goals and the community of like-minded individuals helped them achieve the goals faster.
I wanted to create a sense of belongingness in online education. And I felt community-led learning is the best way to do it. Moreover, for my second startup, I wanted to do something very meaningful and something that played to my background as an educator and a community builder. And that led to the founding of Airtribe.
Do you believe that CBCs are the only way to fill the gaps in learning? If yes, how?
No, I think it’s one of the better ways. The pandemic made us all value the importance of relationships in our lives. It fostered the community-led learning model that will enable in building of professional connections and relationships in a way I haven’t seen in any other model yet.
I think we remember college less for the quality professors who taught us and the curriculum we had but more for the experiences we embraced on campus, life-long connections and friends we made. I believe that community-led learning can do the same for online education.
🥳 Proud moment
Supercharge your productivity with Circuitree 💡
Simran Sachdeva who is one of the learners in the 10kdesigners cohort at Airtribe has recently built a one-stop WhatsApp-based chatbot along with her team that can store all your important information in Notion for you.
Proud moment for us as the tribe is growing tremendously. You can click the button below to join the waitlist 🌟
📖 What have we read on this tranquil Sunday afternoon?
Time for some brain food 🍽️
Ruthless Prioritization
All high functioning teams must prioritize. Not once a month, not once a week — but rigorously, and ruthlessly.
Brandon Chu covered a fascinating framework that can help with prioritization between projects and within a project.
This article can help aspiring PMs who are trying to level-up and senior PMs who want to effectively evaluate the members and the projects.
Take a moment for our tribe🥂
Kudos! to Ayisha, Karupa, Hamdan, Asish, Pallavi, Swati, Swapnali and Kashif for starting their Learn in Public journey and getting on the path of sharing knowledge.
Trust us on this, it’s the best way to gain clarity and amplify your thought process! An useful byproduct of sharing knowledge in public is that the industry starts noticing you - including recruiters.
😂 Meme of the week
This week, Memes were raining on Airtribe’s slack channels.
Kashif posted the best meme of the week with maximum reactions.
💫 A recent discovery we found fascinating
For this week, we came across a very powerful thread on storytelling and the frameworks we can adopt in life to master this art.
Everyone loves to listen to a good story. It can be a valuable tool that efficiently draws people’s attention. It creates more opportunities and connections that promote the growth and recognition of the brand.
The thread uncovers how brands like Nike and Apple harness storytelling which help them in boosting sales extensively.
“1,000 songs in your pocket”
This is one of the most genius stories ever told in marketing which helped shoot the iPod sales up to the roof. Do you have more such stories of brands with us? Let us know below 👇👇
✨ Signing off with some wisdom
“Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan.”
― Naval Ravikant
Somehow, we have stopped enjoying our life while taking everything around us too seriously.
The flavour and essence of life is to enjoy every moment and cherish it.
Let’s try to embrace this beautiful life and find happiness. Remember, happiness is a choice!😊😊
That’s it for now, folks. Thank you so much for reading this week’s edition. If you had even a little fun reading this edition, we’ve done our work!
See you next weekend.