https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/05/blue-fever-an-anonymous-social-network-acquires-gen-z-founded-trill/

With Senate hearings and leaked documents galore, teen mental health on social media is a hot topic right now. But Gen Z founders Georgia Messinger and Ari Sokolov have been trying to create healthier online spaces since they were in high school, when they started the anonymous virtual support app Trill.

“People ask us sometimes, ‘How did you guys decide you wanted to be entrepreneurs while being students?'” Messinger, now a Harvard undergraduate, told TechCrunch. “It was never that we set out to start a business, per se, it’s just that when we were seniors in high school, we set out to just solve a problem for our friend. One of our friends was bisexual and was really struggling with coming out, and we wanted to create an antidote to traditional social networks, which later has been coined ’emotional media,’ and it was just a passion project that grew bigger than we ever imagined.”