Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where users can talk to each other live, directly competing with newbie with Clubhouse. 

Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where users can talk to each other live, directly competing with newbie with Clubhouse. We told you how Clubhouse was one of the social platforms to watch this year, and it’s gotten a major boost in recent weeks (thanks to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg). Now, it’s getting a new competitor. Mark Cuban is already in the process of developing Fireside, a “next-gen podcast platform” which is set to launch later this year, will facilitate live conversations and foster “civil intelligent discourse, shared connected experiences, and genuine relationship building virtually,” which will “promote driving social impact through meaningful conversations at scale.” As part of their goal, co-founder Falon Fatemi is reaching out to established podcast creators about “Founding Firesider” spots, seemingly to build an initial roster of Fireside users. Unlike Clubhouse, users will be able to “natively record” those conversations. (The Verge)