Anna Gat is Founder and CEO of Interintellect. Interintellect describes itself as having reinventing the french salon for the 21st century.

The salons of Early Modern Revolutionary France played an integral role in the cultural and intellectual development of France. The salons were seen by contemporary writers as a cultural hub, for the upper middle class and aristocracy, responsible for the dissemination of good manners and sociability.

The interintellect team has built a curated marketplace for online salons to engage a now global audience. Trained hosts are able to monetize their talent and skills to curate conversation between well-meaning citizens in the public arena. 

Anna and I discuss how she has effectively built something that is half virtual city, and also half highly curated live conversation.Interintellect is a full-attention product - meaning participants are fully engaged, as opposed to something like a Twitch stream or a Twitter space, which would be more of a partial attention product.

The community on interintellect is deeply engaged with their salons and with each other. This episode provides yet another example of how lines between the metaverse and reality continue to blur.

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