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Squad, the 'anti-bro startup,' is creating a safe space for teenage girls online – TechCrunch
Squad, an app that allows you to video chat and share your phone screen with a friend in real time, has tapped into a demographic clamoring for a safe space to gather online. Without any marketing, the startup has collected 450,000 registered users in eight months, 70% of which are teenage girls. So far this year, users have clocked in 1 million hours inside Squad calls.
“Completely accidentally we’ve developed this global audience of users and it’s girls all over the world,” Squad co-founder and chief executive officer Esther Crawford tells TechCrunch. “In India, it’s girls. In Saudi Arabia, it’s girls. In the U.S., it’s girls. Even without us localizing it, girls all over the world are finding it.”
“We want to be a place where girls can come and hang out,” – Squad co-founder and CEO Esther Crawford.
Crawford describes Squad, which she’s built alongside her co-founder and chief technology officer Ethan Sutin, as the “anti-bro startup.” Not only because it’s led by a woman and boasts a cap table that’s 30% women and 30% people of color, but because she’s completely rewriting the consumer social startup playbook.
“We are trying to learn from the best in what they did but get rid of the shit,” Crawford said, referring to Snap, WhatsApp, Twitch and others. Twitch, a live-streaming platform for gamers, has become a social gathering place for Gen Z, she explains, but like many other communities on the internet, it’s failed its female users.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 10 2019, @11:26PM (3 children)
If there's anything that destroys it, it will be the same thing that destroyed girls and womens' sports -- letting trannies in, and then all those trannies outperform the girls and women and beat them at their own game. The real girls and women will become disillusioned and resentful because their space was invaded and they can't publicly say a goddamn thing about it because muh bigotry.
Creating a safe space for certain demographics is a fools' errand nowadays, because it's about diversity and inclusion. And unfortunately, like in the world of sports, it could backfire spectacularly if it turns out some demographics outperform others. I'm not saying that biological males are necessarily better at coding than biological females, but we already have millennia of culture which have stacked the deck in favor of the idea that males are the dominant sex.
Of course the most elegant way to address the issue is to create a third class for trannies (in addition to men and women) but good luck with that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:39AM (2 children)
Pretty sure the following logic us all we need, and it is simple enough to implement in whatever framework you like.
if user = ethanol-fueled
disable(user)
call_feds
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 11 2019, @04:48PM (1 child)
LOL fucking Python. Learn a real language, kiddo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @12:46AM
Wow you're a worse coder than you are a human. That is just sad, maybe hire a few monkeys with typewriters?