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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Paul Davison on building Clubhouse

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Paul Davison and his Clubhouse co-founder Rohan Seth are in the midst of a colossal career moment. Jessi sits down with Paul to learn what it’s like to design an app as it goes viral.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Spectrum Business is made to work the way small business works, made to rise and grind, made to start small, but think big,

0:07.0

and made to do it all with fast, easy to use, internet, phone, and mobile services that work as hard as you.

0:12.6

Visit spectrum.com slash work to learn more.

0:15.0

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill.

0:18.0

And this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work

0:22.0

and how that work is changing us.

0:24.0

Paul Davison and his co-founder Rowan Seth are in a really crazy career moment right now.

0:31.0

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, they've been in the game for a while. They've tried some things that have worked and lots that haven't.

0:38.0

And then last spring, they launched a social app that took off.

0:43.0

It's called Clubhouse.

0:45.3

It's an audio social network.

0:47.0

Think WhatsApp needs radio.

0:49.2

More than a million people have signed up so far.

0:52.3

It's not just that it's growing. Clubhouse is growing so fast.

0:56.9

I didn't open it up for one day last week and when I opened it again 45 people I knew had signed up.

1:03.0

Imagine for a second if a million people moved to a piece of land that had never been inhabited before and tried to set up a city.

1:11.0

Build the houses, make the laws, develop the schools and parks, decide who gets to be influential

1:16.7

and how to protect people. That's what's happening right now over at clubhouse. So I invited Paul in the show to tell us about what it's like to design a

1:26.0

social app as it goes viral. And what he hopes Clubhouse can become. Here's Paul.

1:33.6

Voice. can become. Here's Paul. Voice is relatively new in the world of social networking,

1:38.2

but if you think about humanity,

1:40.5

voice is the oldest medium.

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