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Charlie Ward

Founder & CEO, Ramen Club · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ward founded Ramen Club (originally Weekend Club), a bootstrapped founder community and London coworking space helping SaaS creators achieve ramen profitability. He also founded the Indie Beers meetup series and co-hosts the podcast Napkin Math.

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5 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Charlie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ward: Duolingo users host tens of thousands of language events annually
“Like, Duolingo, like, they get their members to create their own events to practice, like, languages, and they, there's, like, tens of thousands of these events a year, and there's no way they could do this, like, with employees.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 11:12 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub

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Everything Charlie Ward said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Ward: True communities require peer connections that scale beyond founder introductions
“Ultimately the most important thing is make sure you're building connections between other people. It's not like a newsletter, like an audience. You need to make sure you're naturally building those connections and it scales beyond just you having to introduce…”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 5:24 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weekend Club's churn rate was 3% over three months
“No, the churn rate in the last three months is about three percent.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 7:39 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Assertion Supported
Ward: Duolingo users host tens of thousands of language events annually
“Like, Duolingo, like, they get their members to create their own events to practice, like, languages, and they, there's, like, tens of thousands of these events a year, and there's no way they could do this, like, with employees.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 11:12 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Disclosure
Weekend Club received an acquisition offer before speaking to investors
“I mean, we've had an acquisition offer in the past, but I don't think we've really spoken to investors yet, but I'd probably consider it, you know, see what the terms are on that kind of thing.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 11:54 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Assertion Supported
Weekend Club reaches $2,148 in MRR
“So we just hit 2148 dollars in MRR about a few days ago.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 2:02 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Assertion Supported
Weekend Club counts 60 paying members
“Yeah, we now have 60 paying customers.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 3:26 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Disclosure
Ward originally never intended to charge for Weekend Club memberships
“Originally, I never planned on charging for community You know, I used to think I would never do that, but I realized I can just offer a far better service if we do that.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 6:23 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roughly 99% of Weekend Club members are startup founders
“It's pretty much always founders. Yeah. Like 99%.”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 8:49 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub
Disclosure
Ward aimed for $5K MRR to reach ramen profitability in London
“Well, my objective the end by the end of the year is about five camera and that's roughly my ramen profitability if some in London, right?”
Charlie Ward Apr 28, 2021 ▶ 9:25 The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub

The other half of the tape: Charlie Ward's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 2 episodes on Top Founders. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Rosie Sherry 4Nathan Latka 1

Statements about Charlie Ward, by other people (1)

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sherry: Migrating Weekend Club from Slack to Circle would probably kill it
“If he tried to move to Circle, or if he tried to move to another tool, it would probably, the community would probably die, in my opinion.”
Rosie Sherry Jan 22, 2021 ▶ 12:05 Queen of Community Rosie Sherry Reveals Secrets of Engagement, Growth, Monetization

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub Apr 28, 2021 8m
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