Newly launched social network Maven loses its co-founders
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust three months after Maven’s public launch, Kenneth Stanley — the former OpenAI researcher who co-founded the social media platform designed to facilitate serendipitous interactions — is stepping down.
Stanley posted on Maven and X that despite enthusiastic responses to the platform’s launch, Maven ‘could not achieve the kind of growth curve that investors want to see to justify increasing investment, and there is likely still a missing ingredient for that kind of growth.’
On social media, Stanley honed in on this point, saying that the internet needs something like Maven, ‘something to take us away from the endless convergent popularity contest and closer to serendipity.’
Secretan will stay on in his role as chief technology officer to drive product innovation and next steps. The founders decided that Secretan would be the obvious choice to stay on because he was the one who built most of the app.
Whether Maven could raise more funds or attract the user base necessary to grow on this mission was always an open question. Maven allows people to follow and connect with topics they find interesting — from neuroscience to parenting — but there are no likes, upvotes, retweets, follows or ways to amplify content to the masses. While those features of social media arguably make it more toxic, they also keep users engaged.
Following the co-founder’s exit, Maven will bring on product design help on a contract basis to maintain that philosophy while also attracting more users.
‘We’re not just sort of taking the easy way out and drowning the feed with just the most popular and lowest common denominator stuff,’ said Secretan. ‘So I think there is a way to thread that needle.’
The founder also mentioned that Maven created a spinoff app called Ryff that uses generative AI art to help users follow their interests and explore new spaces.
Ref: techcrunch
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