EP 113 Developing a Social Audio App to Rival the Big Players

The world of social audio apps is having a “Big Bang” moment.

Can a six-person company find a way to differentiate its product, survive, and win?

Our guest, Zeeshan (Zee) Sheikh, is the Founder and CEO of Space, an audio-as-a-service platform that enables you to add clubhouse style audio-chat directly to your product, under your brand, where your customers already are.

While working as a Senior Director of Emerging Technologies at Everbridge, Zee had been playing around with an audio app idea since 2018. After several iterations, he caught the eye of Jason Calacanis and other investors, providing enough capital for Zee to go full time in September 2020.

Calacanis invested in Space because of Zee’s approach to selling social audio to businesses, rather than hustling to get consumers to embrace it, as Clubhouse, Twitter, and others are doing.

For almost 20 years Zee has been entrenched in the emerging tech world, with several entrepreneurial adventures to his credit. His deep experience with leading and building globally distributed teams, process improvement, eCommerce and web architectures and product innovation and architecture make him uniquely qualified to scale Space.

Zee shares his fascinating founder journey, including transitioning to a full time founder, details around launching an innovative app in a crowded space filled with heavily funded Big Players, and how he found an ideal lane for his B2B enterprise app that will help him create value in a way the Big Players can't.

This is what startup life is all about - woo hoo!!

To learn more about Space and try out the app on your website, visit: https://www.joinspace.co​

Do you have questions for Zee and the Space Team? Email them at: [email protected]

Connect with Zee and Space on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zxed/​ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/spac...​
Twitter: https://twitter.com/join_space​ and https://twitter.com/zxed​

Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!

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