Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce

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Clubhouse’s founders want to “reset” the company.

The company’s founders say they need a smaller team as they look to ‘reset’ Clubhouse for a post-covid era.Clubhouse, the app that sparked a wave of audio-only features, is laying off over 50 percent of its employees. The app’s co-founders, Paul Davison and Rohan Seth,, where they emphasize a need to “reset” the company in a post-covid era.

“As the world has opened up post-Covid, it’s become harder for many people to find their friends on Clubhouse and to fit long conversations into their daily lives,” the founders write. “To find its role in the world, the product needs to evolve. This requires a period of change.” In their memo, Davison and Seth say they’ve been unable to make things work with the current size of Clubhouse’s team, noting that it’s “difficult” to “communicate the strategy to cross-functional teams” and “make quick changes when each surface is owned by a different product squad.” They believe a smaller, “product-focused” team should help remedy this.

Clubhouse first emerged as an invite-only app in the midst of covid-related lockdowns in 2020. During this time, downloads soared as users were looking for remote ways to meet up with friends. The buzz surrounding the app even spurred several clones from other companies, like

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