Houseparty Vies With Zoom to Be Homebound Chatters’ App of Choice
The Epic Games-owned startup has seen 50 million signups in the past month.
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Sima Sistani has been getting through the coronavirus outbreak’s shelter-in-place order the past month in many of the same ways others have: home-schooling her 7-year-old, trading off parenting shifts with her husband, and jumping from room to room to find a quiet space for phone calls. “I’m basically in whatever room my kids are not in,” she said.
But Sistani’s work life has been dramatically changed in one way that’s unique: as co-founder and chief executive officer of video-chat app Houseparty, which has surged in popularity since early March, she’s suddenly leading a company that has evolved from a low-pressure way to chat with friends to a legitimate lifeline for those unexpectedly stuck indoors.