Sarah Tavel (@sarahtavel), partner at Benchmark, and Ben Rubin (@benrbn), founder of Houseparty and Meerkat, join Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- Where the white space is in social and the possibilities for vertical-specific social networks.

- Why Facebook looks to young people today the way Yahoo! looked to Sarah’s generation.

- What participatory social looks like and how to solve the problem of presence.

- Their ideas for new social networks.

- What Twitter could have been.

- How social interacts with gaming, audio, dating, and other spaces.

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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Grace Chen is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.