More than just a place to hang out and network, Clubhouse is “in the pole position to change the culture like no social platform has since Music.ly and Instagram before that,” writes Nue Agency’s Jesse Kirshbaum.By Jesse Kirshbaum of the Nue AgencyThey are in the pole position to change the culture like no social platform has since Music.ly (and Instagram before that).One of the biggest success stories of the pandemic has been an app called Clubhouse.Clubhouse, which officially launched in February 2020, took off in late Spring and has since become the place to hangout, network, and connect.All day and night there are conversations taking place on a wide range of topics from crypto secrets to racial injustice to the NFL playoffs (with top players from the league!)The founders, Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, first raised money and eyebrows with an all-star consortium of Silicon Valley backers, including Andreesen Horowitz and the Cultural Leadership Fund (shouts to Chris Lyons for putting so many of us on!). The roughly $100 million dollar raise caught a lot of people’s attention: how can an app in beta with fewer than 5000 users garner a valuation like that?!The rollout was pitch-perfect and every night…
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