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Tom Matzen

Tom Matzen

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Thousand Person Tribe, known for building dozens of businesses and coaching coaches on tribe-building.

Oct 6, 2026

12:51
But, like, tell us about the people that you're working with now and, and how do some of these same problems, like, show up for them?
12:57
Well, yeah, great, great insight.
12:59
I think, um, there's a couple of ways that shows up.
13:02
Number one, when you first launch a business, right? You know, a lot of people listening in, they're, they're early into their business or they're thinking of launching a new business or maybe pivoting to a different business.
13:11
Um, the mista- the advice everyone gives is start with the exit in mind.
13:16
Start with the end, right? What's your plan? Are you gonna sell it? Are you gonna, you know, give it to your kids? Are you gonna, you know, l- empower your team to take over and run it? Like, what's your exit plan? Well, I've had 94 businesses.
13:29
Only the last three did I do that.
17:35
Mm-hmm.
5:16
So what are you seeing out there in the online space since you were last on the show when it comes to building a tribe? More difficult, the same, easier?
5:25
Well, way more difficult, I think, for a couple of reasons.
5:27
Number one, a lot of people think social media is how you build a tribe.
5:31
And you know this and I know this.
5:33
Social media is how you waste time and energy.
5:38
It's not a tribe building platform.
5:39
We actually ran a contest where we gave away a ticket to this marketer's cruise, called it Mastermind in Paradise about a year ago.

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17:57
Once they're in your community, most people

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