Fizzisbetting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.
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 thatdoesn’tmake 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.”
Todaywe’rebringing you a conversation that DominicMadoriDavis had withFizz’s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year’s Disrupt, digging into why he thinks social media stopped being social.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
- Why Solomon thinks Instagram and TikTok became pure entertainment platforms, and why that created an opening
- How Fizz uses 7,000 volunteer student moderators plus AI to keep the platform safe
- The company’s expansion strategy beyond college and what “Global Fizz”actually means
- Solomon’s case for why New York is a better place to build a consumer company than San Francisco
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