Mark Cuban says he's 'involved' with an upcoming competitor to Clubhouse, the $1 billion invite-only conversation app Silicon Valley can't get enough of
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Mark Cuban is involved in an upcoming competitor to the hot invite-only audio startup Clubhouse.
Cuban and co-founder Falon Fatemi will launch Fireside, a live-conversation app that allows users to record conversations, The Verge reported Monday.
Cuban confirmed to Insider he was involved with Fireside, but declined to answered when the company would launch.Fatemi, once the youngest-ever Google employee, previously got Cuban to invest in her startup Node, a AI-as-a-service platform. The co-founder said Fireside would allow for better conversations and prevent social-media echo chambers, she said in an email to creators obtained by The Verge.
Read more: The unofficial story of how Clubhouse founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth failed their way to a $1 billion appFireside will "level the playing field by empowering creators based on what they have to say (not how loud they yell) and we give their ideas the reach to turn a single conversation into the seed of the next media empire," Fatemi wrote, according to The Verge.
Cuban has been on Clubhouse since last year, per The Wall Street Journal. He has invested in other social-media apps like Mercury Protocol, a messaging app built on blockchain, and Dust, a messaging app where conversations self-destruct after 30 seconds.
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