{"id":13135,"date":"2026-01-01T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fizz-ceo-on-why-anonymous-social-is-winning-with-gen-z\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:04:41","slug":"fizz-ceo-on-why-anonymous-social-is-winning-with-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fizz-ceo-on-why-anonymous-social-is-winning-with-gen-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Fizz&nbsp;is&nbsp;betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t&nbsp;make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued to Instagram and TikTok, the app&rsquo;s hybrid anonymous model and hyperlocal focus has made it what Solomon calls &ldquo;the biggest college social app since Facebook.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&nbsp;we&rsquo;re&nbsp;bringing you a conversation that Dominic&nbsp;Madori&nbsp;Davis had with&nbsp;Fizz&rsquo;s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year&rsquo;s Disrupt, digging into why he thinks social media stopped being social.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to the full episode to hear:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Why Solomon thinks Instagram and TikTok became pure entertainment platforms, and why that created an opening&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">How Fizz uses 7,000 volunteer student moderators plus AI to keep the platform safe&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The company&rsquo;s expansion strategy beyond college and what &ldquo;Global Fizz&rdquo;&nbsp;actually means&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Solomon&rsquo;s case for why New York is a better place to build a consumer company than San Francisco&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on&nbsp;YouTube,&nbsp;Apple Podcasts,&nbsp;Overcast,&nbsp;Spotify&nbsp;and all the casts. You&nbsp;also can&nbsp;follow Equity on&nbsp;X&nbsp;and&nbsp;Threads, at @EquityPod.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fizz&nbsp;is&nbsp;betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t&nbsp;make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fizz-ceo-on-why-anonymous-social-is-winning-with-gen-z\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}