“Community managers which in most communities started by a single Creator is just that individual Creator can also eventually be recruited from within this community they know each other and the people who are trusted the most often tend to be the first non-founder Community managers which if it's a monetized community can and probably will be a paid occupation”

Recruit your community managers from inside the community — pay them

When the community outgrows the founder's personal bandwidth, don't hire externally. Promote the most-trusted, most-helpful existing member into a paid community manager role. They already know the rituals, the inside jokes, the rules, and the members. The community sees them get rewarded for the work they were already doing for free — which doubles down on the contributor-recognition culture. Founder-led communities become paid jobs internally, and that's a feature.