Cofounder at @clubhouse. Previously @coinlist, @pinterest, @highlight, @benchmark, @google, Metaweb
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We made something new at @clubhouse that our friends have been using a lot. Thanks to all of you who have been helping us test it!
We’re letting more people in today, so wanted to share the blog post, as well as a quick “top 10” faq for new users… 🧵
blog.clubhouse.com/the-new-c…
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Big news :)
@clubhouse is splitting up… into many clubhouses.
It’s a huge evolution of the app that @rohanseth, the team and I have been working on for months.
Beta is here! forms.gle/659VjMKmB37dkEHP8
Why the change?….
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We are looking to hire our first few engineers and designers at @joinClubhouse. Please share this if you know someone amazing? Thank you! 🙏
joinclubhouse.com/joinourtea…
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Today @rohanseth and I made the difficult decision to significantly reduce the size of our team and say goodbye to a lot of amazing teammates. This isn’t about the macro environment. This wasn’t a financial decision. We have plenty of runway…
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The best social experiences are not open to everyone. They are small and curated. This is what creates intimacy, trust and friendship.
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This is about resetting to be a smaller team, focused relentlessly on product. We have a clear vision for where we are headed and significant plans to evolve @clubhouse. But we need to be a small startup again to focus and move faster.
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Yes! Been waiting for this for a while. Have been a huge fan of @andrewchen’s writing for the past decade and am so grateful to work with him on @Clubhouse. Book (and audiobook) are out today: coldstart.com
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This room is amazing right now joinclubhouse.com/room/m2Egg…
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This is the note we shared with our team — all brilliant, creative people who any company would be lucky to hire. As a founder you dream of working with people like this. We hope to make them proud by sharing the next evolution of Clubhouse with you soon. blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-…
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Fugging great chat with @HarryStebbings. All things @clubhouse, the future of friendship, and where we're going next. Thanks for having me! :) thetwentyminutevc.com/paul-d…
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Finally, if you’re interested in the mission, come build with us! My teammates are brilliant & humble and it’s amazing to us that we get to work on this thing. clubhouse.com/jobs
Ok, Twitter UI is suggesting I make this a newsletter, so that's it for now... Thx for reading!
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This room is so cool joinclubhouse.com/room/P07pw…
Malcolm McDowel telling stories about Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers in a room with 100 people is why Clubhouse is so special.
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To evolve @clubhouse we’re breaking it up.
The new graph structure will allow any person, group, or community to create its own House — with its own personality, culture and content moderation rules — where members can meet up regularly, talk, and hop from room to room.
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This is fantastic
By popular demand, @OfficialidafLO and I’s (un)official @joinClubhouse welcome jingle is recorded and has been sent off to master!!! @pdavison @FADIA @jas_mrtn @JulieMixtape @edaz @Ajmalito @stephssimon @rohanseth @keyinfluencer @kanter @tiffanyshlain @djdnice @FeliciaHorowitz
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So grateful to have Brian as a friend and so impressed by what he is doing to end ALS. Please consider helping if you can.
BREAKING ALS NEWS: In honor of #LouGehrigDay a group of incredible donors has agreed to match every dollar donated to @iamalsorg up to $250,000.
To donate and rewrite the ALS story, click here: iamals.org/give-for-lou/
Thank you for giving us the chance to end ALS. #IAMALS
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😮 @Oprah just joined this room and is talking now
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Communities need to be able to undergo mitosis as they grow — so they can split into new ones and the intimacy can scale. That’s how /r/music spawns /r/hiphopheads. It’s why classrooms max out at a certain size, and why people form smaller circles when a house party grows.
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Great room with @TiffanyHaddish right now... joinclubhouse.com/room/xLy27…
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After a lot of swings, the two of us launched @clubhouse in 2020. We built it in a few weeks, and it was scrappy. Our icon was a photo of Bill Murray and the whole app was a single room, where our community of friends-of-friends would talk, share ideas, and meet each other.
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If you run a public show on @clubhouse, keep doing it! More people joining Houses = more people jumping into your rooms… and a lot of interesting new ways to connect intimately with your listeners.
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This is a really nice idea—donating tablets to hospitals to help ensure that critically ill patients can see their loved ones.
Learn more here if you'd like to help: gofundme.com/f/GivingDignity
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What is one of the most memorable social experiences you’ve had in the past decade? Who was it with?
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The beta that’s shipping soon feels good. We know there will be a lot to tune, but we have years of capital in the bank and we’re long-term committed to the product. The world is going increasingly remote, and getting together with people you like needs to be easier.
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In a @Clubhouse room with @GhostPanther. He is doing live commentary while we watch @dontlookupfilm. 🤯 clubhouse.com/room/MEbJ1yjp
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Noise causes churn. Somehow, millions made it through the madness, found their people, and form the core of our community today: Big thinkers, amazing writers, amateur pizza makers, scientists, musicians. They are incredible. The best community in the world.
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But we’ve learned it’s more than one community. It’s too big. Not everyone wants to talk about the same things! People have different styles and ways of coming together. And the right rooms are hard to find. A single community just doesn’t work beyond a certain size.
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People can sign up at joinClubhouse.com! Working hard to open it up to everyone as soon as possible...
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It might have been a trip with friends and family. A wedding. A dinner party. A house party. A curated get-together. A festival or camp. Or maybe just a random evening that started small and turned into something big — where you showed up with a few friends and left with more.
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In 2006, I spent time researching friend-matching in school. In 2011, I built @highlight with @benagarr to help you meet friends-of-friends around you. This is me talking with @om about it back in the day: om.co/gigaom/highlight/
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2. Why do all the AI Chat previews in the new @clubhouse have the word “thrilling” in them?
We thought it was funnier when they sounded like movie trailers.
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House member lists will be public, because it’s more fun that way. Many rooms on @clubhouse will still be public too, and everyone will be able to explore the public hallways, discovering new people and cultures from around the world. Only the House rooms will be private.
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These friendships are what defines our lives. But real moments of togetherness don’t happen very often – because we’re all busy, serendipity is hard to engineer, and meeting up takes time.
It’s a problem @rohanseth and I have been trying to tackle for years.
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If you joined the beta using the link above and need help setting up your House, @rohanseth and I host weekly Town Halls and New User Orientation sessions, along with our amazing teammates. We love talking with the community, so please come by and get free tech support!
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The small size and density of connections led to a great experience and crazy word-of-mouth growth. We tried to limit signups by requiring an existing member to invite you, but that perversely made people want to join more and flooded the hallway with less relevant rooms. Whoops.
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This was such a great room! Our Sunday morning hangout turned into an impromptu show, where some incredible musicians started collaborating from around the world in real-time. So much talent! Was one of the coolest @clubhouse rooms I've ever been a part of.
One @Clubhouse use case that kind of surprised me is co-jamming rooms; while we try to minimize audio delay, music is very latency-sensitive. But when one person plays a harmony and others play melodies, there's more wiggle room. Listen at this link: clubhouse.com/room/xev8dR43?…
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Congrats @HarryStebbings!
I got a little bit carried away with the angel investing over the last few years.
So it’s time to announce @20vcFund backed by 83 friends from around the world.
🏦 $8.3M
📈 Pre-seed to Series C
💵 $250K investments.
To some exciting times ahead.
techcrunch.com/2020/07/17/fr…
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This room is great. So many amazing people here. clubhouse.com/room/PvY05VRJ?…
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Q1 community feedback cycle! What can the @Clubhouse team start, stop and continue doing in 2022? Constructive, funny, and snarky submissions are all welcome. :)
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Love this, and love seeing the well-deserved outpouring of support for Garry. Fantastic choice. :)
Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO.
It's a one in ten billion lifetimes kind of opportunity— YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community.
forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…
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Live now with @alexisohanian, @haikusubway and @andrewchen — talking product and early stage company building! clubhouse.com/room/M1wJRkov
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In a room with @JoshConstine now, talking with the @ConstitutionDAO team
We...didn't buy the constitution. Join our live chat with the @ConstitutionDAO crew now to discuss what happened clubhouse.com/join/pressclub…
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This was fun :) Message me if you want to set up a House!
Had a lot of fun on @Clubhouse last night for the first time in a long time!
Will be very interesting to see how this unfolds...
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Coming soon from @benrbn and team! Can't wait to see this.
I’m excited to share a new company I’m building with @brianmeek5 called @slashtalk.
/talk is an anti-meeting tool that decentralizes conversations so teams can move faster in an exciting new way.
Check it out and apply to pilot here slashtalk.com also we're hiring :)
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Listening to @kevinhartz and @JoshConstine discuss the future of events… clubhouse.com/room/MKB4oAqQ
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Very excited to be joining the @coinlist team! medium.com/@coinlist/welcomi…
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Talking product with @nikitabier in 10 mins! clubhouse.com/join/Clubhouse…
I’ll be on Clubhouse at 9am tomorrow with the man, the myth, the legend @pdavison to talk about product development & topics in this thread.
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1. Ok, tried the new @clubhouse. Found a bug.
You and me both! Mind reporting it? There are all sorts of things we need to add and fine-tune. It’ll take some time. But we’re long-term committed to building something great for you and your friends. Watch it get better each week✌️
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I can help! Please just DM me, or tell people to sign up here and list your name in the comments? Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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@rohanseth loves social products too, and he spent years working on the same problem. This is an app called Phone-a-Friend that he launched with @rohandang in 2016, to help friend groups talk with each other more often: paf.memrylabs.com/
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In a room with @nealstephenson and he is reading a chapter from his new book. Love this club. clubhouse.com/room/M43LWQgl
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Book clubs on Slack, where each book has its own channel. This makes a lot of sense!
SQBC is opening up to more users today... sign up here! 👇🏽
1/ We're proud to do a small part to encourage people to stay inside and self-quarantine.
Self-Quarantine Book Club is a community on Slack where book lovers around the world come together to discuss what they’re reading.
As of today we're opening it up for more people to join.
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Great room with @DollyParton right now :)
Get ready! @DollyParton is joining @AdamMGrant on Thursday 3/3 at 2:15PM ET on @Clubhouse to discuss her creative process, new album and new book! Don’t miss this live podcast taping of WorkLife with Adam Grant.
RSVP here: t.ted.com/tRTyGsK
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Thank you so much for being part of it! Really enjoyed the conversation! :) cc @rohanseth
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3. Isn’t @clubhouse dead?
Not yet! At @clubhouse we root for our friends to succeed and we’d bet on our team any day. We have years of runway in the bank and millions of active users. We are going to stay heads down building.
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About to go live with @semil on Talkshow -- "Thoughts on Talkshow, the future of audio, and startups/people to watch"
Listen in and text your questions! jointalkshow.com/l/xioDsbda
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That is incredible that you bought a used iPhone for this. I feel so much pressure to make it worth your while! haha.
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Musicians in Japan, Boston and France jamming live together via @Clubhouse clubhouse.com/room/xBJ7RQOw
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10. So the new @clubhouse is voice notes?
Yes! But you can see when friends are sending them & join in. So it’s more like a voice note party where friends can stop by — and bring their friends. Is “social messaging” a thing? I’m not sure.
But we call the new format a “Chat.”
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5. Does @clubhouse still have live rooms?
Yes! Live is great. Hanging with friends late into the night. Laughing. Low-TAM jokes! Not going away.
Adding async just makes it much easier to see stuff from friends when you open the app, instead of whatever rooms happen to be live.
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Sometimes people do this so their followers get notified that there is a good conversation happening. (Kind of like a RT - h/t @rohanseth for pointing this out.) Also, sometimes they get invited up and accept out of politeness but don't have anything immediate to say.
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I haven't tried Messenger Rooms but I bet it's good. And not trying to be exclusive at all with Clubhouse! We are building it for everyone and are hoping to open it up ASAP. We are just letting people in slowly to make sure that it scales as we do.
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Thank you so much Sunil! Hope to catch you on the app sometime soon and talk more about all of this. In the meantime, just glad to have you be part of it!
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:) @balajis was talking about Lamba. All great things of course!
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Just did a guest post on @techcrunch: The Air Above Our Heads: The Growth Of Ambient Social Networking techcrunch.com/2012/12/16/th…
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8. Who can join a Chat?
You can be more private, but the default is "friends-of-friends."
This creates a nice house party vibe, where everyone has shared social context and feels accountable. No dunking or doom scrolling.
It’s for people who value friends over followers.
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Listening in live to @semil and @Beezer232 on Talkshow -- "LP perspective on current environment for those raising new funds, and more! " jointalkshow.com/l/nVNK5E2y
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6. How are people using it?
Top use cases:
- Drop in and say hi
- Share news, links, music
- Tell funny stories from your day
- Meet your friends’ friends
- Talk about mutuals
- Ask questions
- Quickly voice-note friends, family & groups
- Weird things
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9. What does a Chat look like?
Like your group texts and Stories... had a baby? You can see friends' faces, speed them up, read transcriptions, swipe and tap through. People say more. You hear each other laugh. You get to know each other. They’re designed to be fast and fun.
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7. Why would you want friends to be able to “drop in” on your voice notes?
It’s fun? Think of when friends drop by your dorm room, or you see an old friend at a party.
With more of us living/working remotely, we need places where we can bump into friends unexpectedly.
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Thank you @blader! Made my night to read this, and so grateful to have you be part of the beta!
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4. What about @clubhouse creators?
We’re moving to a “friend” model, but if you’ve built a following here, you will not lose it.
You’ll be able to migrate them to a house and we will work alongside you to ensure it’s a smooth transition. Chats will be a new tool for you too.
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Wow, Lyn Ulbricht, mother of @RealRossU, is talking about him in this Mother’s Day room… clubhouse.com/room/PAAYnN2Z
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Best friend. This is amazing! Thank you! Also, the first one (moderators should be able to mute others) is actually possible in the latest release. :)
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