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Meta Might Not Be Up For This Whole Metaverse Thing
Its inability to launch Diem doesn’t say much about its ability to build products from scratch.
Those were the days.
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In late October 2021, which feels like it was 700 years ago but was in fact just one (1) fiscal quarter in the past, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for Second Life II: Metaverse Boogaloo, a virtual paradise his company was building out of sweat, ingenuity and blockchain.