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Kanye West and Elon Musk are slated to appear on a Clubhouse talk show hosted by a Facebook employee and her VC husband

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Kanye West and Elon Musk are slated to appear on a Clubhouse talk show hosted by a Facebook employee and her VC husband
  • "The Good Time Show" found a way to draw Elon Musk and Kanye West into public discourse.

  • The show is run by a Facebook employee and her husband, a newly named partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.
  • Clubhouse and "The Good Time Show" could be the beginning of a new type of media outlet.

As buzz behind the invite-only conversation app Clubhouse continues to build, one couple seems to be driving public interest in the new application.

The roughly month-old talk show on Clubhouse, "The Good Time Show," has found a way to draw out high profile characters like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as well as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - two tech leaders that are often hesitant to speak to the media.

The show is also in the process of scheduling an interview between Musk and rapper Kanye West.

Perhaps, high profile leaders have been more willing to go on the show because it allows for a platform outside of traditional media outlets. "The Good Time Show" focuses on peer-to-peer communication - an initiative that resonates with tech leaders like$4.

The show is run by Facebook employee Aarthi Ramamurthy and her husband, Sriram Krishnan, who has previously worked for Twitter, Facebook, and Snap.

The show first captured public attention earlier last week when$4 on his controversial decision to$4.

Musk promoted the interview on his Twitter account hours ahead of the event. Thousands tuned in to the show. Viewers hit Clubhouse's previously maintained limit of 5,000 guests and even more streamed the interview on YouTube.

"The Good Time Show" overwhelmed the Clubhouse app again just days later when$4 Krishnan$4 the issue on Twitter.

On Wednesday, Musk said on Twitter that West had agreed to an interview on Clubhouse.

One of the hosts of "The Good Time Show"$4 the interview was in the process of being scheduled just hours later.

Musk and West have a longstanding friendship. In July,$4

Key Clubhouse investor Andreessen Horowitz has an active presence on the show

Guests and co-hosts on "The Good Time Show" often include the partners of Andreessen Horowitz, Clubhouse's lead investor. As of Wednesday, Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

"The Good Time Show" could be the beginning of $4 which seek to create a platform to talk about tech without the need to go through journalists or traditional media outlets.

"We are building a new and separate media property about the future that makes sense of technology, innovation, and where things are going - and now, we're expanding and opening up our platform to do this on a much bigger scale," Margit Wennmachers, a VC at A16Z wrote on a $4. "We want to be the go-to place for understanding and building the future, for anyone who is building, making, or curious about tech."

After Musk's interview, A16Z took to Twitter to announce it is releasing a new podcast that would include conversations from Clubhouse, including the one between Musk and Tenev.

The Good Time Show has a format unlike other typical talk shows

The format for "The Good Time Show," much like the app itself, is highly casual and focuses on organic conversations on anything from startups to venture capitalism and cryptocurrencies.

But, overall, the talk show is focused on optimism.

Guests on the show talk about future innovations without skepticism. The show gave Musk the room to talk about developments at his company, $4 through a chip implant, or for Zuckerberg to discuss his plans for Facebook's Reality Labs group, which works on augmented reality and virtual reality platforms.

Unlike traditional interviewers, Krishnan and Ramamurthy, as well as their guests, do not appear to push back against the ideas discussed, instead letting them flow freely. In many ways, it could be described as akin to some of the friendlier late-night shows on big networks.

Outside of A16Z's plans to turn high-profile conversations on the app into a podcast, Clubhouse does not create a permanent record of conversations or messages between users, which could allow for speakers to feel more comfortable expressing their ideas, but has also $4

The application operates more or less like a virtual chatroom without video - a live podcast of sorts. A Clubhouse spokesperson, along with Ramamurthy and Krishnan, did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.

While the app is still invite-only, Clubhouse $4

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