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Average Clubhouse users spend 70-80 minutes daily, and 30-40% speak
“Our average person, if you join a room on Clubhouse on, on average, you're there about 70 or 80 minutes a day. 30 to 40% of people are talking, depending if you look on a weekly or daily basis.”
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's public feed shows only a fraction of total network activity
“We have actively seen more and more rooms going private and semi-private over time. So you actually only see a fraction of what's happening on the Clubhouse network when you open the app, and that's increasingly true over time.”
Davison: Future generations will expect ambient data on nearby people
“I do think that our grandchildren will think it's crazy that that's the way the world used to work. Just like we can't imagine a world without the internet and without instant access to information and phones.”
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 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…”
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 scaled from 9 to 95 employees in a single year
“We went from nine people to 95 people over the course of a year”
Davison: Clubhouse launched as a single room where everyone was a speaker
“Ended up launching the first version of clubhouse in March of last year. And the very first version of the app, the whole app was a single room. There was no follow graph. Everyone followed everyone. There was no concept of an audience. Everyone was a speaker.”
Davison: Clubhouse ran without website, App Store listing, or PR for months
“Really for the first four or five months of the company, it was just the two of us. And we were on the app, 12, 14 hours a day, just talking with people while we were building it, getting feedback. And we didn't have a website. We weren't in the app store. We …”