Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is pivoting toward the metaverse.
Facebook is going to spend $10 billion on it next year. It will spend $100 billion over the next decade building it.
Think about it: There are billions of monthly active users on Facebook. The scale of this is enormous.
Facebook touches half of the entire planet. It seems like everyone has a Facebook account.
And now Facebook is bringing you into the metaverse.
In today’s video, Steve Fernandez and I discuss why Facebook is the key to Web 3.0.
(If you’d prefer to read a transcript, click here.)
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