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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, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:37AM (1 child)
Sorry, but you're WRONG, and demonstrably so.
Brazil had slavery. Brazil got rid of slavery. Brazil is not eaten up with race politics today.
Cuba had slavery. Cuba got rid of slavery. Cuba is not eaten up with race politics today.
Continue that list, and you'll find that just about every member of the "Western World" shares the same bit of history, and the same freedom from race history.
THE PROBLEM HERE IN THE US ARE THE RACE BAITERS. Al Sharpton, Sheila Jackson, Kamala Harris, and on and on it goes. People who profit from stirring the shit, keep the shit stirred. The harder the race baiters work to keep that shit stirred up, the more genuine racism they instill on all sides.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @10:10AM
Runaway I like you but you're wrong. You've been to Brazil, right? You cannot have missed the fact that indigenous persons are societal second class citizens. Spanish (swarthy southern spaniard!) descendants call themselves white (I am of Irish descent and once had a person who I thought was black say they weren't indigenous, but "white like you" which I did keep a straight face for.)
Saying Brazil isn't consumed by race politics is like saying China isn't. It's only "not a problem" because the people in power don't have ANY motivation to change things.
> Continue that list, and you'll find that just about every member of the "Western World" shares the same bit of history
That's not true? The bit of history that is unique to the US is the cotton slavery period. No other modern nation industrialized slavery to the same extent. And if you continue that list - you want to show me the race-based slavery history for Canada, Ireland, Spain, Greece, etc? Because Canada had none, Ireland I don't believe ever had double-digit black slave population, Spain's slavery was rarely purely by skin, Greece's slavery history is so incredibly different from the US's that using the same word is only appropriate because we dno't have finer grained terms...
I mean, I appreciate what you do and your attempts to honestly engage. Please try to do so honestly on this topic. Saying the problem is persons who believe there's a problem is pretty clearly wrong if you take out "black persons" and replace with "suffragettes." Those "baiters" are calling for peaceful, legal, systemic changes. There is baiting going on, but not by credible parties on either side, and if you attack a strawman you look more foolish than if it were a windmill you were tilting.