Someone from Apple is on the board of the people invested in Clubhouse? Someone got paid. That feels a lot like pay-play schemes from the recording industry and radio.
Is it? Don't you just need an acquaintance on the inside? I got invited by someone I worked with once upon a time shortly after installing the app just to see what all the fuzz was about.
Almost certainly. Or someone from Clubhouse called Apple board member "Al Gore" and told him to fix it.
https://247wallst.com/technology-3/2020/08/04/who-is-on-appl...
He's been a "fixer" for many Apple issues, including getting Steve Jobs deflected from a back-dated stock option scam. (Jobs paid himself $1/year to beat payroll and income tax, and was compensated in backdated stock options, so he'd only have to pay the long-term capital gains tax rate)
Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/steve-jobs-haunted-by-back...
Making their treatment of Hey even more bullshit.