Rohan Seth is among the rising entrepreneurs, influencers, creators, and executives we highlighted on Fortune‘s 2021 40 Under 40 list.
Rohan Seth realized that Clubhouse was having a moment when Oprah showed up.
It was June 2020 when the queen of talk took to Clubhouse, the hot social media app Seth co-founded, to discuss criminal justice reform with author and motivational speaker Shaka Senghor. Although Clubhouse had grown steadily since its debut in March 2020, it wasn't as much as some other well-known Internet startups over the years. It was a pivotal moment for Clubhouse because Oprah would undoubtably draw attention to the app, which powers hundreds of thousands of “rooms” for what are essentially live podcasts.
But Clubhouse was still tiny. The only employees were Seth and co-founder and CEO Paul Davison, plus a “couple of folks” who were helping out, Seth told Fortune. Three hundred people listened to Oprah pow-wow with Senghor and others including broadcast journalist Gayle King and entertainment mogul Michael Ovitz. The two co-founders were worried the service may crumble under pressure, technically speaking. Thankfully, there were no problems; Oprah was pleased, and the app didn't crash.
“I remember calling Paul after the room ended and was like, the servers are good. Wow this is such a great thing,” Seth recalls.
Although Seth said he’s “not a great engineer,” the technologist must be doing something right. That Clubhouse hasn’t experienced any major technical...
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