{"id":8514,"date":"2026-01-01T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:16:21","slug":"fizz-social-apps-ceo-on-why-anon-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8514","title":{"rendered":"Fizz social app&#8217;s CEO on why anon works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fizz.social\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fizz<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued to Instagram and TikTok, the app\u2019s hybrid anonymous model and hyperlocal focus has made it what Solomon calls \u201cthe biggest college social app since Facebook.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0bringing you a conversation that Dominic\u00a0Madori\u00a0Davis had with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/teddy-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fizz\u2019s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year\u2019s Disrupt<\/a>, digging into why he thinks social media stopped being social.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/techcrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/fizz-social-apps-ceo-on-why-anon-works\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fizz\u00a0is\u00a0betting that Gen Z is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[6795,770,6796,747],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}