So far social media was restricted to text and visuals, but Clubhouse takes it old-fashioned voice. There are several thousand chat rooms here for conducting uninhibited conversations on diverse subjects. It is a major departure for the working of social internet. It has witnessed spectacular growth in short-term, from just a few thousands in the mid-2020. It has been set up by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth who met through tech circles in 2011, and built a prototype podcasting app — Talkshow. However, it was treated as a broadcast, and so they added a few people to participate in the conversation. In March 2020, they started Clubhouse where multiple people broadcast at once and allowed people to bounce between digital rooms. It caught on , as it is a new way to connect with one another. Andreessen and Horowitz’s venture firm invested $10 million into Clubhouse. They valued it at $100 million.