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Equity

The impact of hype with Clubhouse's Paul Davison

Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, Natasha is bringing one of her favorite panels from Disrupt to your ears. She sat down with Clubhouse co-founder and CEO, Paul Davison, to talk about the core of Clubhouse, competition, and the impact of hype. The conversation touches on the company's hyper growth, celebrity power, and navigating social platforms and social patterns, with a round of questions from the audience at the end. If you love the conversation, share it with a friend. And if you want more on Clubhouse, Natasha dove deeper into the conversation here. Equity drops every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7 a.m. PT, so subscribe to us onApple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has agreat show on crypto, ashow that interviews founders, ashow that details how our stories come togetherand more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups

0:14.8

where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha

0:18.4

Masquerainis and this is our Wednesday show where this week we're doing

0:21.6

something a little bit different.

0:23.4

We usually niche down to a single person or question and we are doing that but in a throwback sort of way.

0:29.2

So I interviewed Clubhouse, co-founder and CEO Paul Davidson at Disrupt this past October, and we're

0:34.8

bringing that full conversation to those of you who couldn't make it or just want to

0:38.3

listen to it again. So stay tuned. We'd get into a bunch of things of course what happened to clubhouse the

0:44.0

app that was all over the place and then went really quiet into competition and

0:48.1

that four billion dollar valuation and also just how social platforms and social patterns work.

0:53.7

Interestingly enough, this wasn't Paul's first foray into a viral app.

0:57.8

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the rest of the show.

1:00.8

Bye.

1:01.8

Hello.

1:04.0

Hello.

1:05.0

Thanks for coming on your way or work.

1:08.0

We're taking questions so make sure to do that while we talk but I mean I want to start

1:12.4

with the fact that you have a history of

1:14.9

capturing ideas ahead of their big moment and kind of following them through to

1:19.7

this rocket ship and I'm not even talking about clubhouse I'm talking about highlight one of your first companies

1:24.8

That really caught the attention of the public and the love of it. So let's start there

1:28.9

What's your what's your strategy when you spot a moment? Are you really good at predicting things?

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