Do You Think the Medavers Are Going to Replace Space in a Bar?

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Tinder, hinge and zinga are all looking to extend their services into virtual reality. Will the medavers have the equivalent of a 30 % fee or is it a truly competitive market where everything gets competed down to a cost? I wouldn't say that market power diffuses. There's currently this ethos, especially in the web three community, that decentralization needs to win,. But at the end of the day, no matter how popular block chains are, there are multiple forms of centralization. Habit is powerful. Brand is powerful. The associated trust, intellectual property, the fundamental feedback loops will drive better product investments from more engineers.

Fighting fires meant a lot of downtime for Matthew Ball. Stationed at a forward operating base in the woods for two weeks at a time, he spent long hours amongst fellow firefighters with whom he shared little in common except for their love of the outdoors. The skills he gained working towards mutual goals with those he had little else in common with has translated well to his career as a strategist and venture capitalist in the digital media and gaming industries. Ball is a managing partner of EpyllionCo, venture partner at Makers Fund, and author of the anticipated The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything.

Ball joined Tyler to discuss the eventual widespan transition of the population to the metaverse, the exciting implications of this interconnected network of 3D worlds for education, how the metaverse will improve dating and its impacts on sex, the happiness and career satisfaction of professional gamers, his predictions for Tyler’s most frequent uses of the metaverse, his favorite type of entrepreneur, why he has thousands of tabs open on his computer at any given moment, and more.

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Recorded July 6th, 2022 Other ways to connect

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