It was June 2020 when the queen of talk took to Clubhouse, the hot social media app Seth cofounded, to discuss criminal justice reform with author and motivational speaker Shaka Senghor. Although Clubhouse had grown steadily since its debut in March 2020, it wasn’t attracting the kind of buzz that other now well-known Internet startups had over the years. It was a pivotal moment for Clubhouse because Oprah would undoubtedly draw attention to the app, which powers hundreds of thousands of “rooms” for what are essentially live podcasts.