Fizz is betting that Gen Z is bored with performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.
What began as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has was the dominant social platform on faculty campuses throughout the US, centered on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it right into a spotlight reel. Capturing the eye of a demographic sometimes glued to Instagram and TikTok, the app’s hybrid nameless mannequin and hyperlocal focus has made it what Solomon calls “the most important faculty social app since Fb.”
Right this moment we’re bringing you a dialog that Dominic Madori Davis had with Fizz’s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year’s Disrupt, digging into why he thinks social media stopped being social.
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