What I Learned at Clubhouse 📓 - by Anu - Working Theories
After 2 years at Clubhouse, I’ve taken away many personal lessons on how to build and scale startups — especially products, communities, and teams — and how to do it in public.
“Radio Listeners” (Alexander Rodchenko, 1929). I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was supercharged by the caliber of our team, the rate of growth, and the very nature of building in a new product category. When I started, the app had ~1000 users. Rooms didn’t have titles and “clubs” didn’t exist yet. The team was just the founders. Clubhouse has been built in public since, and as an early employee and Head of Community, I became a quite…
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