Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

When we started next door two thousand ten, the Pew report. on community in America said thirty percent of Americans could not name a single neighbor by name. So thirty percent of our potential audience doesn't know any of their neighbors, even if they want to invite them. We knew from the very beginning.

This was gonna take More dedication. More resilience. more patients, and in many ways we kinda wore that as a badge of honor. Because we knew that it would scare away.

The vast majority of competitors. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. Guy Rise and on the show today, how the founders of Nextdoor wanted to turn physical neighbors into virtual ones with a network that's grown to nearly 350,000 neighborhoods.

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