Product design question

If you were a PM at Facebook, how would you build an audio product (like Clubhouse)? Walk me through your process.

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What this question tests

End-to-end product design process for a new social audio product, from user need through prioritization and success metrics.

Start with the user need: spontaneous, low-effort social conversation without the commitment of video, filling a gap between texting and a scheduled video call.
Identify Facebook's advantage over a standalone app like Clubhouse: an existing social graph and Groups/Events infrastructure to solve social audio's hardest problem, cold-start discovery of relevant rooms.
Prioritize a narrow initial use case, like audio rooms attached to existing Facebook Groups, rather than a fully open discovery feed, to leverage existing trust and relevance.
Design core mechanics: easy room creation from within a Group, lightweight moderation tools, and notifications limited to relevant Group members to avoid spam.
Define success as rooms created per active Group per week and average listener retention per room, with notification opt-out as a guardrail.

Explicitly identifies the cold-start discovery problem that killed standalone social-audio apps and shows how Facebook's graph solves it differently.
Scopes the launch narrowly, tied to existing Groups, rather than building an entirely new discovery surface from scratch.
Walks through the process in order: need, advantage, scope, mechanics, metrics, matching what the question explicitly asks for.

Describing a feature list without addressing why Clubhouse-style apps struggled with retention after their initial hype.
Skipping the 'walk me through your process' structure and jumping straight to a feature description.

How would you moderate live audio at scale to prevent abuse?
How would you decide whether to expand beyond Groups to a general discovery feed?