Clubhouse opens its doors to everyone, is anyone rushing to get in?

What I mean by "normal process of growth" is if you look at some of the established tech companies like Dropbox or Facebook (just two off the top of my head), you see that they all had relatively humble beginnings and grew into the companies they are today. With Clubhouse and to a larger extent Quibi, it seemed like these companies are all attempting this corporate experiment where with millions/billions of dollars, you can theoretically shortcut the "humble beginnings" part and go straight to an org with all the trappings of a large company.

So far it seems that it doesn't really work and one problem seems to be is when you go down the normal process of growth, you grow your company around your product or service and that product or service gets better over time (theoretically). The issue i see with all these companies that try to shortcut the process is that while they look to be a well established company from the org chart, their product is still infantile. And IMO unlike shortcutting the process to company growth, you can't really shortcut the process to product growth, because a big part of that process is responding to feedback from users and how the market in general is responding to your product/service, and that just can't be compressed down, no matter how much money you throw at the problem.

And this is where the companies inevitably fail. Because they shortcutted the "org maturity" part and not the "product maturity" part, their massive burn on everything from legal to marketing become unsustainable given how infantile their product is, and the companies either fold or slog on once the marketing dollars have dried up until they too fold or are acquired.

At it's best it's like walking down the hallway of a grand university, able to drop in and out of any of the lectures and seminars in progress, not disturbing anyone but able to contribute if you want.

Lately the reality is more like walking down the main thoroughfare of a low-end shopping mall, flanked by somewhat tacky shops you have no interest in entering. Like you want to find a specialist book store, but everywhere's just selling e-cigs and phone accessories. I haven't really signed in for months.

1. The 1x speed was unbearable, which leads to the next point 2. The quality of the conversations was very low for me. The more interesting rooms were packed quickly and there were way too many people who were using the system just for monetization. Before a lot of real conversation started, the moderators would spend about 20 minutes going over their backgrounds and platform, which seemed to be the main point of the conversation. They also seemed to talk in a slow pace that a networker would talk in rather than someone really enthusiastic about their subject matter or even an entertainer.

Some highlights were Tim Dillon trolling on Clubhouse, though (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clTehN8Xnuc)

Wow. This should be tablestakes for a company worth 4 billion dollars.