Solo Acts: Raluca Pop, founder of Hive Social

The Vergecast

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Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This is episode one of our Vergecast mini-series "Solo Acts", which features people who are working independently to create great things on the internet, hosted by Ashley Esqueda. Today, Ashley talks with Raluca Pop, founder of the social media app Hive Social, which was created when Raluca was only 19. Ashley and Raluca discuss the challenges of building a social media app from scratch in the world of Big Tech, what happens when you need to address problem like a mass influx of users and security issues, and working with such a small team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	Toyota, let's go places.
0:39.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Twitter competitors.
0:43.5	I'm your friend Alex Cranz, and today we're starting a mini-series called soloax, which
0:48.6	will feature interviews from people who work independently to create great things on
0:52.2	the internet.
0:55.4	Most of the time we talk about tech in terms of a handful of big gigantic companies like
0:59.3	Meta, Twitter, Netflix, all of those guys, but some of the most interesting stuff we find
1:04.6	online is the product of a single person, sometimes even in their spare time.
1:09.0	In this series we'll get to know these people, the tech they use to get stuff done, and
1:12.7	the obstacles they face trying to compete with the giants.
1:15.6	So for the next five Mondays on the Vergecast, our friend Ashley Esqueda will be curating
1:20.4	and hosting these interviews and sharing with us what she's learned.
1:23.8	Hello Ashley.
1:24.8	I have to learn something.
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