Hey there everybody welcome back to the podcast my guest today.

It's a good one. David Sherry. He's the founder of Death to Stock, a membership community

that delivers personal curated non-stock photos and video.

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I find it to be very compelling is like how do you grow an audience but not only that because like some people have the experience of a viral event

taking off their career in terms of growing an audience but then you don't have a say over who those people are and maybe that thing that made you viral

wasn't the best representation what you stand for and now you have this audience of people that like maybe doesn't actually

connect or resonate with your ideas. I sort of feel like it's the opposite for me and like what I personally want is the opposite.

I've been joking about this thing which is like a slow growth hacker which is somebody who like takes their time and like really tries to build as tight knit of a community as possible

through not necessarily just going viral and I think it's like obviously it's very popular right now to try to get a viral hit

so you maybe are trying to be salacious or something like that in the content you create and I feel like people are sort of wanting more depth than that and like people

are smart and they want to talk about interesting topics so like building content that's meaningful and growing your audience slowly I think that's I guess

how I want to approach my work so yeah I think you build more respect more trust there is more intimacy you can be vulnerable because like you said when you

get popular because of a viral event you have no control over I mean you almost become for a lot of people a meme like you even look at some of these people that become viral in these meme photos

that you chat around and it's like they are now a character and how would they even even if they wanted to leverage it even if they didn't want to when they

still wanted to like present themselves online as they truly are that's that's an uphill battle and like you see it so many times and especially people who maybe

get misrepresented their views get misrepresented how do they then correct that and make people think that they're you know see who they truly are sure

it gets away from you almost like you have this thing happen and then all these other people are talking about or commenting and yeah you don't

necessarily get a start from the foundation that you want and happy to give like a quick background if that's helpful on me yeah let's do that we did just run into it sure so yeah six years ago I started an email

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