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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 11 2019, @01:26AM (5 children)
What would we ever do if Anonymous Coward were to abandon us?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:42AM (1 child)
Implode under the weight of unopposed stupidity.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:24AM
Thanks for the love and recognition. I do it because I consider it my sacred duty. And you're welcome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:32AM
Resurrect APK to have him / her create a HOSTS file solution?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @10:21AM (1 child)
I mean, based on this article? SN is on the road to getting 8channed minus the publicity. It hurts like having your teenaged kid get arrested for a hate crime. What have I / we done wrong, to raise them like this? Reading this article's comments - and a few others today - I am actually literally wondering if 8chan and /. being down/no-AC is making folks who otherwise might at least pretend to discuss articles instead go apeshit, virtue-signalling to their ingroup whose side (men's! white men's! dun matter who they are as long as they're white - and men!) they're on.
It's like, can you all not see the irony in using identity politics yourselves, here, in the same paragraphs as you decry it? I don't read realDonaldTrump levels of selfawareness in it but maybe you're all playing the intellectual game like, 8 levels beyond me, and you're really hoping to change the world by being so obnoxiously intellectually dishonest that you disgust everyone else into not being similar.
Maybe? Doubtful. So, one sad AC. With /. long gone (fuck beta) and now SN apparently sinking, maybe it's time to try to find some smaller forums.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:26PM
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