Opinion

May 18, 2022

The metaverse sucks — IRL meetings are the way to go for growth

Startups living in a Zoom and Slack metaverse are forgetting how valuable in-person can be 


Avi Meir

4 min read

Silicon Valley loves a fad. And the defining fad of the last 18 months has surely been the metaverse, mostly thanks to Mark Zuckerberg rebranding Facebook to Meta and betting big on virtual worlds. 

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