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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

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The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. Similar to Saga , a family-focused audio social network.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

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Social networks have their own switching costs. Zuckerberg paid , in other words, for the network-based moat: “WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. By 2019, WhatsApp had 1.5 Musk, by making his fast chargers available to others and open-sourcing Tesla’s patents , has intentionally filled a potential moat.