Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
2 of 2 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 26 Nov 2019 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Gavin Baker
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26 Nov 2019 – 2 Apr 2020
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Bill Gurley
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7 Dec 2021 – 7 Dec 2021
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The chronologysourced and dated, oldest first
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Gavin Baker
Baker predicts most people will spend most waking hours in virtual worlds within current lifetimes.
“I think it is inevitable that a majority of people will spend a majority of their waking hours in virtual worlds within our lifetimes.”
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Gavin Baker
Baker predicts a majority of people will spend most waking hours in the metaverse within his lifetime.
“The metaverse is simply a series of connected virtual worlds that I firmly believe a majority of people will spend a majority of their waking hours in within my lifetime.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley is skeptical of avatar-based work meetings, having done eight such board meetings pre-Zoom.
“And we've done them. Philip and I have done eight of those board meetings with avatars, and that was pre Zoom.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues simpler heuristics go viral faster than complex ones, favoring Discord over Meta's approach.
“Personally, I've always found that simpler heuristics go viral faster than complex ones. And so when I equate what's happening in a Discord or a Twitter space with what's trying to be achieved by Meta.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley would bet on a 500 million user communication platform adding avatars over a perfect avatar system without users.
“if I had to place a bet on whether someone that had 500,000,000 users on a digital place platform where people are communicating and that they might add avatars or some digital thing that makes it more immersive versus someone that built the perfect digital three d avatar immersive system but doesn't have the users yet?”
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Where they overlapsame programme, same subject
- Invest Like the Best also carries Bill Gurley and Gavin Baker on this subject, at different times.