So welcome everybody.

everybody this is the Tech Mem Ride Home experience for Wednesday, July 21st.

I can't believe it that half the year it, that half the year is gone.

I'm not going to think too hard about that.

But we have an amazing show today.

I'm just, there's so much that happened today and I kind of hate that this happens every day that we do one of these things but I don't hate it because it's there's so much to go over and to discuss

But today in particular there was just so many things that were lighting up for me as I was trying to make sense of the news and anyways

Today's gonna be great

We are also oh yeah, it's an it's another day where half of this I didn't even get to talk about today.

So, you know, it's almost like the Tech Mem Right Home podcast is almost like twice a day.

It's like morning and evening like news you know like an actual

commute show that's been brought up before but there's only one of you I know yeah that's

how it is well one thing before actually, this dropped after, I believe after you published, if I recall correctly, Clubhouse is now open for everybody. I feel like I have to bring that up. I have to mention that. We got our

start. Actually this show got our start on Clubhouse. So it is a big moment I suppose

for it finally to be out to the world.

I do think that from a product development life cycle

perspective, and Ross, you can actually speak to this as well.

You know, the fact that they went from more or less zero product to, you know, a 1.0, well, a year and a half, it's, it's a good amount of time and the product is pretty consistent with where it was, but obviously've scaled it they've grown it they've added a lot of

moderation features and tools and now they have removed that

Invite wall and so now anybody can get it on iOS or Android and we'll see

there's a lot of I guess questions about retention and about whether it's going

to you know continue to grow but maybe it's one of those troughs of despair and

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