Spontaneity is the thread that ties Davison’s work together, whether its for making new friends, sharing your life, transmitting your thoughts, or having a discussion. This year he debuted his Alpha Exploration Co startup studio and launched Talkshow for instantly broadcasting radio-style call-in shows.
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The name Clubhouse perfectly captures how people long to be part of the in-crowd.Ĭlubhouse was built by Paul Davison, who previously founded serendipitous offline people-meeting location app Highlight and reveal-your-whole-camera-roll app Shorts before his team was acquired by Pinterest in 2016.
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For now, there’s no public app or access. High-energy rooms attract crowds while slower ones see participants slip out to join other chat circles.Ĭlubhouse blew up this weekend on VC Twitter as people scrambled for exclusive invites, humblebragged about their membership, or made fun of everyone’s FOMO.
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You see the unlabeled rooms of all the people you follow, and you can join to talk or just listen along, milling around to find what interests you. The most buzzy of these startups is Clubhouse, an audio-based social network where people can spontaneously jump into voice chat rooms together. While “Live” has become synonymous with performative streaming, these new apps instead spread the limelight across several users as well as the task, game, or discussion at hand. But they could also change the way we work and socialize long after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication of parties and open office plans online.
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That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine.