# Clubhouse

> Clubhouse is a voice-first social app built by Alpha Exploration Co. It started as an invite-only live audio room platform that briefly mesmerized Silicon Valley in 2020-2021, then pivoted to friend-centric voice messaging and custom AI voices as the live-audio boom cooled.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Paul Davison (Co-founder, CEO), Rohan Seth (Co-founder, CTO)
- **Team size:** ~270 (per third-party data; significantly reduced after 2023 layoffs)
- **Products:** Clubhouse Chats, Voicemails (VMs), Custom Voice, Live Audio Rooms
- **Notable:** Reached an estimated $4B valuation within ~14 months of launch., One of the fastest-growing consumer apps of 2021, briefly the most-talked-about product in tech., Pioneered the live drop-in audio room format that competitors raced to copy.

## Products & services

- **Clubhouse Chats** — Asynchronous voice messaging for friend groups and friends-of-friends - the current core product.
- **Voicemails (VMs)** — Private one-to-one audio messages that replaced text-based DMs in 2023.
- **Custom Voice** — An AI-powered feature, launched in 2024, that converts typed text into a message in the sender's cloned voice.
- **Live Audio Rooms** — The original drop-in audio room product that defined the brand in 2020-2021; scaled down but still present.

## Achievements

- Reached an estimated $4B valuation within ~14 months of launch.
- One of the fastest-growing consumer apps of 2021, briefly the most-talked-about product in tech.
- Pioneered the live drop-in audio room format that competitors raced to copy.
- Launched cloned-voice text-to-speech messaging in 2024 - one of the first consumer social apps to ship a voice-clone feature at scale.

## Latest updates

- **2023-09** — Pivoted from open live audio rooms to friend-centric voice chats; replaced text DMs with audio VMs.
- **2024-02** — Launched Custom Voice: typed messages are spoken back in the sender's cloned voice.
- **2024-2025** — Continued iterating on small-group voice messaging; usage stabilized at a fraction of the 2021 peak.

## Links

- Website: https://www.clubhouse.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clubhouse-app
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/joinclubhouse
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joinclubhouse
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joinclubhouse/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Clubhouse-Official-102101821809396/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joinclubhouse

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Last updated: 2026-05-29