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Bootstrapped Founders Are Ditching VC Twitter for Private Communities in 2025

Bootstrapped founders are abandoning VC-dominated social feeds and flocking to tight-knit private communities where real revenue talk happens. Here's why the shift is accelerating in 2025 and exactly where to find your people.

9 min readAugust 11, 2026

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Bootstrapped Founders Are Ditching VC Twitter for Tight-Knit Communities in 2025

Bootstrapped founders are abandoning noisy social feeds for invite-only Slack groups, Discord servers, and forums where real revenue numbers get shared openly. Here's where the smartest self-funded builders are gathering right now.

11 min readJul 7