Paul Davison
13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 6, 2021 by Paul Davison · across every show →
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May 6, 2021 negative
Davison: Podcasts lose the live interactivity that makes radio successful
“We forget that the foundation of terrestrial radio is the fact that these conversations can be live or near live and interactive. You think about the most popular formats on terrestrial radio, you have live sports, breaking news, listener call-in shows, mornin…”
May 6, 2021 bearish
Davison: Social and communication products are not rational to build
“I think the potential of social products and communication products is so, it's so large, right? It's, they can impact our relationships and they can impact society in such a big way, but they're really hard and there's a lot of luck and there's a lot of timin…”
May 6, 2021
Davison: Didn't realize Highlight and Clubhouse were fundamentally similar until told
“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?”
May 6, 2021
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.”
May 6, 2021 negative
May 6, 2021 positive
Davison: Podcasts optimize for insight density; Clubhouse optimizes for human connection
“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 …”
May 6, 2021 positive
May 6, 2021 neutral
May 6, 2021 negative
Davison: Creating audio content is easy, but RSS distribution is broken
“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…”
May 6, 2021 positive
Davison: Audio provides conversational fidelity without the anxiety of video
“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.”
May 6, 2021
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 …”
May 6, 2021 negative
May 6, 2021 negative
Seth: Davison and I initially resolved to avoid building social apps
“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…”