Roar Social Ushers in a Bold New Era of Social Media
Summary
Everyone from professional content creators to casual social media users can harness their time, attention and creative superpowers for good. Instead of organizing around the usual creators and followers, Roar Social users choose Hero Cause communities and join forces with allies, who use collaborative content formats to entertain and generate real-life impact. As legacy social media companies are facing scrutiny and shedding employees, Roar Socials $10M seed capital has allowed it to attract a world-class team, including product and engineering talent from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and LinkedIn.In addition to attracting top talent, Roar Social has assembled an impressive board of advisors from the worlds of media, technology, advertising and philanthropy: Jeff Raikes (longtime CEO of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Mark Rockefeller (global philanthropist and entrepreneur), John A. Weiss began his career as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and TODAY, and he subsequently ran his own TV production company and served as a high-level executive at cable networks FX, Fuse, Ovation and VH1. Weiss was a pioneer of early influencer/creator culture at the social entertainment company EQAL before leading a variety of digital media, software and consumer technology startups including FanDragon, RockYou, BANG and PollPals.