Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. <\/p>\n
What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued to Instagram and TikTok, the app’s hybrid anonymous model and hyperlocal focus has made it what Solomon calls “the biggest college social app since Facebook.\u201d <\/p>\n
Today we’re bringing you a conversation that Dominic Madori Davis had with Fizz\u2019s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year’s Disrupt, digging into why he thinks social media stopped being social. <\/p>\n
Chapters: <\/p>\n
00:00 – Introduction <\/p>\n
01:34 – What broke in social media <\/p>\n
04:03 – Building for the 99% of life <\/p>\n
07:29 – Content moderation at scale <\/p>\n
11:16 – The risks of anonymous social <\/p>\n
13:22 – Pandemic origins and IRL community <\/p>\n
16:49 – Why the company moved to New York <\/p>\n
19:45 – Scaling with “arguably the most retentive social product in history” <\/p>\n
21:32 – Almost getting arrested at Pepperdine\u2026for donuts <\/p>\n
26:09 – The future of social media <\/p>\n
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