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See I’ve heard the opposite. Just yesterday[1], Ben Thompson posted about how clubhouse is reaching those normie users. I disagree, but often these things have
by ryanSrich 6y ago
See I’ve heard the opposite. Just yesterday[1], Ben Thompson posted about how clubhouse is reaching those normie users. I disagree, but often these things have a way of being self fulfilling prophecies. I don’t think Clubhouse is for sure a pump and dump just yet. If they get bought by Facebook or Twitter for billions then that’ll confirm it for me. However, it is very strange how infatuated a16z seems to be with Clubhouse. I see rooms posted on the app all the time with a16z VCs and sometimes the founders of Clubhouse. I’ve joined a few. It’s just naval gazing about what the “vision” for clubhouse is. This isn’t necessarily bad. It’s just radically boring content. Subjective of course, but there’s no substance to these conversations.
Anyway, I honestly don’t hate clubhouse the app. I hate a lot of the bullshit content it shows me, but hey, maybe they’ll figure it out.
I will say, there is something artificial about the user base of CH. it doesn’t feel organic. I think this gets to your point about getting the right people with the right network on the app. There aren’t any actually _new_ interesting people. It’s people you already know about. People you’ve been reading about (if you’re in startup culture) for years.
1. https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/ https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/
- wutbrodo 6y ago> It’s just naval gazing about what the “vision” for clubhouse is. Did you mean navel-gazing or are you referring to Naval Ravikant? This is a sincere question, since I gather he's pretty active on CH.
- ryanSrich 6y agoHa...I guess it works both ways
- tchalla 6y ago> If they get bought by Facebook or Twitter for billions then that’ll confirm it for me. Facebook is apparently building a ClubHouse competitor https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/facebook-building-product-clubhouse.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/facebook-build...
- spullara 6y agoTwitter is already testing one. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22187490/twitter-spaces-test-voice-chat-rooms https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22187490/twitter-spaces-...