StartupLanes

Most community roles ask you to keep a group active. This one asks you to hold together founders, investors, and professionals across 56 cities without ever meeting them in person — which is a different skill: building trust at a distance, fast.

I've done a version of this already. At Ultramile Tyres, I onboarded 50+ B2B dealers and fleet operators from scratch, building a functioning network within 8 weeks through structured outreach and relationship-building — no existing warmth to lean on, just consistent, credible communication. I also ran LinkedIn engagement that generated 20+ qualified leads at 133% of target. When I was the first point of contact for stakeholder queries, I turned the pattern of questions into weekly dashboards that shaped what we did next.

That's the loop I'd want to run for StartupLanes: engage the community, notice what it's telling you, feed it back to the team. I'm also curious where AI fits into scaling that loop across 56 cities.

I've led groups before — NCC gave me a cadet company of 80+ to run, so managing a large, dispersed group isn't new territory, even if the platform is. Would welcome the chance to bring that to StartupLanes.