If they had been smart, they would have bought VRchat and Rec Room and left the teams alone to figure out how to merge those existing worlds and grow organically from there.
That couldn’t possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta’s virtual corporate dystopia.
If they had been smart, they would have bought VRchat and Rec Room and left the teams alone to figure out how to merge those existing worlds and grow organically from there.
That couldn’t possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta’s virtual corporate dystopia.
Sure it could have. They just needed to bolt a payment processor onto the whole mess and they’d have been printing money.
They’d be printing millions, but they need the promise of future trillions to try and maintain their status as a growth stock.