Seth: Davison and I initially resolved to avoid building social apps
Rohan Seth · Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth · May 6, 2021 · at 26:18
Clubhouse co-founders Rohan Seth and Paul Davison discuss their initial brainstorming sessions before eventually creating the social audio platform.
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“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 about areas like productivity and education and marketplaces.”
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