Elon Musk got Clubhouse noticed, now it’s valued at US$1 billion: meet the exclusive iPhone app’s co-founder Rohan Seth – ex Google employee, Bruce Springsteen fan and super dad
- Clubhouse co-founder Rohan Seth is a Stanford graduate who helped create Google’s user location platform before founding early tech start-up Memry Labs
- Seth and wife Jennifer Fernquist have a young daughter with a severe genetic disease and personalising genetic treatments is the couple’s real passion project
An engineering whizz
The techpreneur of Indian descent is a Stanford University graduate with a master’s degree in management science and engineering in 2008. According to his LinkedIn page, two years before graduating Seth began his career as an engineer over at Google, where he worked for six years as part of its machine learning and mobile team, and co-founded Google’s user location platform. He then led the team to work on the Android location platform and what he humbly calls the “built the world’s most sophisticated cell/wifi based location technology”.
Early techpreneur
After Google, Seth founded an early tech start-up called Memry Labs in 2014. The app sees “new behaviours to record and remember more memories”, as quoted from his LinkedIn page. In simple terms, Seth built an app akin to journaling. Memry Labs was then acquired by Open Doors in 2017 and raised US$1.2 million. Seth stayed for another two years until 2019.
He’s a dad on a mission
