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The winning audio social network will be focused solely on spoken audio
“So I believe that the company who wins is going to be company that is fully focused on that medium.”
Clubhouse grew 10x month-over-month for two months during its viral spike
“And then we had a couple months where we just grew like 10 X every month.”
Paul Davison refuses to make Clubhouse a fully distributed company
“I don't want to be fully distributed.”
Clubhouse scaled from 9 to 95 employees in a single year
“We went from nine people to 95 people over the course of a year”
Clubhouse raised its Series A with only two people on the team
“So when we did our series A, the company was two of us. Rohan was doing all the engineering. I was doing all the pixels and we would collaborate a lot on product. It was just us.”
Clubhouse launched as a single room where everyone was a speaker
“When we launched Clubhouse, it was quite simple. It was a single room. The whole app was a single room. There was no audience. Everyone was a speaker. There was no follow up. Everyone followed everyone and you couldn't change that.”
Clubhouse founders built and killed precursor app Talkshow in six weeks
“We had this app called Talkshow, which was like a more formal precursor to Clubhouse. It was a bit more broadcast-y and you know, we built it in a few weeks. There were hints of magic to it, but we didn't believe that it was going to be durable. It didn't seem…”