added by sari · updated 2y ago
Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse
- If you’ve joined a conversation on Clubhouse , attended a virtual event on RunTheWorld, or binged livestreams on Bilibili you’ve experienced Agora. It’s been sitting there, in the background, making sure the audio and video come through clearly.
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- -It wants its customers to get very big, but not so big that they build in-house
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- -It wants to expand to the west, but hasn’t made the proactive PR push that Zoom has to appease westerners security concerns.
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- Zoom was praised for raising so little -- $146 million -- before going public. Agora raised even less. Zoom took eight years to go public, Agora took less than seven. But while Zoom is a household name, chances are you haven’t heard much about Agora. That’s because of what it builds, and who it builds for.
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- Agora does a ton of engineering work and spends a ton of money on co-located data centers behind the scenes to make real-time audio and video just work. The result is that someone on WiFi in Ghana and another person on 4G LTE with spotty signal in Florida can sit in the same Clubhouse room with thousands of other people and hear the conversation cr... See more
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- -All of this is to say, livestreaming the technology is here, but livestreaming as a medium is not... Fundamentally what I’m pushing back on is saying that a technology will get adoption because it is big in China, when really we should be asking what made it catch on there in the first place.
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- -It wants to serve the broadest range of real-time engagement use cases well to appeal to the customers who need everything to just work, but faces competition from more geographically and use-case focused competitors.
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- The same room in standard video would cost $1,723 per hour, for standard quality. Premium would run you $3,883 per hour. It’s no wonder Clubhouse’s founders have said they want to keep the product-audio-only. Video is expensive!
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- Putting that in perspective, assuming that Clubhouse gets the 10% discount and nothing special on top, each hour-long Clubhouse room with the max of 8,000 people in it costs $427.68.
from Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago