Clubhouse

“I had never put two and two together and realized how thematically similar Highlight and Clubhouse were until someone pointed it out to me on the app here some months ago. But they're both about connecting people, right?”

“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.”

“We don't talk about funding because we don't think that's An important milestone.”

“When you listen to a conversation, it's a different set of things that you're optimizing for. Like when I listen to a podcast, I'm optimizing for insights per minute, and I want well-produced, short, punchy podcasts that where I'm learning a lot and If I miss …”

“I think there's a whole lot of luck and a huge amount of luck and a huge amount of timing and a huge amount of I mean, just those two things, I guess.”

“You know, it's not hard to create good spoken audio content. The challenge is that it's hard to produce it and to distribute it. As I'm sure, you know, guy, right. Given the constraints of the RSS based ecosystem, like for most people, it's really, really hard…”

“Like with audio, you have all of the intonation and inflection and fidelity and tone and bids and asks. But you don't have any of the anxiety of video. You don't have to worry about what you look like, or how messy your house is.”

“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 …”

“And I think initially we said, let's not do anything in social. We're just too old. We have families and it's hard and unpredictable. And so we just said like, let's work on something more boring and just a little bit more predictable. I think we were thinking…”