Okay, everybody. We've got an amazing guest in the second half of today's show.

It is Gabriel Weinberg. He has joined us again 10 years after his first appearance on this

week in startups. That's right. We're in year 11. He is running the search engine duck duck

go and the browser. And he cares about user privacy more than almost anybody in our industry.

And he has figured out how to build a competitive search engine to Google,

a competitive browser to Chrome and how to protect consumers privacy. And I talked to him

about partnering with Apple. And if he would consider selling to Apple and why Apple hasn't

bought his search engine and kicked Google out. But first, we're going to talk about the

absolutely insane presentation that Mark Zuckerberg did, rebranding Facebook,

InterMeta, and how they want to take over the next platform for humanity, which most people

believe will be AR and VR augmented reality virtual reality and the metaverse. And I have some

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Okay, Facebook announced today that they're connect conference that's the name of their conference

that they're changing their name to meta and that they are going all in on AR and VR,

aka the metaverse. Here is 48 seconds with Mark Zuckerberg announcing the change. I'll talk to you on

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