Soapstone: Mark Zuckerberg thinks the big growth area is in the metaverse. He's plowing tons of money into this thing, but it's still not clear quite what the metaverse is going to be and when it's going to really take off. But I think investors are getting a bit impatient. You know, they're seeing getting on for $30 billion sunk into this thing,. Not very much evidence so far of widespread uptake. This could very, very well change.
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