{"id":6679,"date":"2022-08-13T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T13:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/exclusive-or-not-this-is-one-clubhouse-where-i-was-happy-to-cancel-my-membership-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T13:36:01","slug":"exclusive-or-not-this-is-one-clubhouse-where-i-was-happy-to-cancel-my-membership-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/exclusive-or-not-this-is-one-clubhouse-where-i-was-happy-to-cancel-my-membership-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive or not, this is one Clubhouse where I was happy to cancel my membership | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The titular \u2018social audio\u2019 app was a would-be $1bn unicorn in the pandemic, but its recent decline has exposed it as just another Silicon Valley solution in need of a problem to solve<\/p>\n

In March 2020, a new app suddenly arrived on the block. It was called Clubhouse<\/a> and described as a \u201csocial audio\u201d app that enabled its users to have real-time conversations in virtual \u201crooms\u201d that could accommodate groups large and small. For a time in that disrupted, locked-down spring, Clubhouse was what Michael Lewis used to call the \u201cNew New Thing\u201d<\/a>. \u201cThe moment we saw it,\u201d burbled Andrew Chen<\/a> of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, \u201cwe were deeply excited. We believe Clubhouse will be a meaningful addition to the world, one that increases empathy and provides new ways for people to talk to each other (at a time when we need it more than ever).\u201d<\/p>\n

The app could not have come at a better time for social media, he continued. \u201cIt reinvents the category in all the right ways, from the content consumption experience to the way people engage each other, while giving power to its creators.\u201d His firm put $12m of its (investors\u2019) money behind Chen\u2019s fantasies and followed up a year later with an investment that put a valuation of $1bn on Clubhouse<\/a>, which would have made it one of the \u201cunicorns\u201d so prized by the Silicon Valley crowd.<\/p>\n

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\nThe titular \u2018social audio\u2019 app was a would-be $1bn unicorn in the pandemic, but its recent decline has exposed it as just another Silicon Valley solution in need of a problem to solve
\nIn March 2020, a new app suddenly arrived on the block. It was called Clubhouse and described as a \u201csocial audio\u201d app that enabled its users to have real-time conversations in virtual \u201crooms\u201d that could accommodate groups large and small. For a time in that disrupted, locked-down spring, Clubhouse was what Michael Lewis used to call the \u201cNew New Thing\u201d. \u201cThe moment we saw it,\u201d burbled Andrew Chen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, \u201cwe were deeply excited. We believe Clubhouse will be a meaningful addition to the world, one that increases empathy and provides new ways for people to talk to each other (at a time when we need it more than ever).\u201d
\nThe app could not have come at a better time for social media, he continued. \u201cIt reinvents the category in all the right ways, from the content consumption experience to the way people engage each other, while giving power to its creators.\u201d His firm put $12m of its (investors\u2019) money behind Chen\u2019s fantasies and followed up a year later with an investment that put a valuation of $1bn on Clubhouse, which would have made it one of the \u201cunicorns\u201d so prized by the Silicon Valley crowd. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The titular \u2018social audio\u2019 app was a would-be $1bn unicorn in the pandemic, but its recent decline has exposed it as just another Silicon Valley solution in need of a problem to solve In March 2020, a new app suddenly arrived on the block. It was called Clubhouse and described as a \u201csocial audio\u201d app …<\/p>\n

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