VOICE IS HOT, as Josh Constine ex-TechCrunch pointed out on April 19, 2020 (after Eric Peckham did on Nov 2019),

"Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could also change the way we work and socialize long after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication of parties and open office plans online. While “Live” has become synonymous with performative streaming, these new apps instead spread the limelight across several users as well as the task, game, or discussion at hand."

Voice-first social networks seems to be the new normal, at least that's what one is tempted to think when reading the headlines in 2020. The Clubhouse phenomenom has been recently (actually since the Covid19 outbreak and shelter in place) the most palpable player (evidence?) in this growing trend.

But wait, is there really something bigger beyond Clubhouse which is gaining momentum? Is Voice going to be the new Consumer Social, where your would engage with your Communities, be they friends, families or like-minded people.. or stangers?

We've been thrilled to host this live episode with a very versatile panel of 4 guests:

• Ilan Abehassera, based in NYC, podcaster (Oui Are New York), serial entrepeneur (now: COO & Co-Founder @ Willo) and VC (GP Diaspora Ventures)
• Carlos Diaz, based in SF, podcaster (Silicon Carne), serial entrepeneur (lately: Co-Founder @ The Refiners) and VC (GP Diaspora Ventures)
• Olivier Desmoulin, based in NYC and Co-Founder @ Cappuccino.fm
• Tom Sebastian Mayr, based in Francfort, Germany and Co-Founder Voicehub.io

We also opened up the floor to 10 attendees who engaged with our guests on the most critial angles for this trend:

• Community & Inclusion
• Quality of content
• Identity
• Live vs Asynchronus speach
• Hardware
• How to reach mass adoption...

.. and many more topics!

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