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Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works

Theresa Loconsolo
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Fizz  is betting 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 that doesn’t make 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.”

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Today we’re bringing you a conversation 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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