Is It Time to Remember the Metaverse? — with Matthew Ball

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Matthew Ball, the CEO of Epyllion, a startup adviser, and the former Head of Strategy for Amazon Studios, joins Scott to discuss the updated version of his book, “The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet.” We hear where to be bullish, along with his thoughts on Starlink, streaming, and AI writ large. Follow Matthew, @ballmatthew. Scott opens with his thoughts on the movie business, luxury, and the Olympics. Algebra of Happiness: step-parents are underrated. Subscribe to No Mercy / No Malice Buy "The Algebra of Wealth," out now. Follow the podcast across socials @profgpod: Instagram Threads X Reddit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Kevin O'Leary. As an investor in many small businesses, I know how hard it is to acquire new customers using only social media.
0:06.0	TV advertising works, but for years has been too expensive and was hard to measure.
0:11.0	So I fixed it and created Wonder Ads.
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0:22.2	with metrics like customer acquisition
0:23.8	cost and return on ad spend. Scale your business on TV at wonder ads.com.
0:29.2	I'm Anuso Ver Ramanian from Fox Media.
0:33.0	While I see them all around the city,
0:35.0	I've never ridden in an autonomous vehicle myself.
0:37.0	I do have some questions about the tech.
0:39.0	You may as well.
0:41.0	Hello, from Waymo, this experience may feel futuristic.
0:45.4	This is so cool.
0:48.1	Vox and Weimo teamed up for an in-depth study about A.V. perception.
0:51.8	And what they found was that as people learned more about Waymo,
0:54.8	their interest in choosing one over a human-driven vehicle
0:57.7	almost doubled.
0:59.1	Person approaching.
1:00.5	Waymo can see 360 degrees and up to 300 meters away, which helps it obey
1:05.7	traffic laws and get you where you're going safely. Swiss Re found that
1:09.9	compared to human drivers, Waymo reported 100% fewer injury claims and 76% fewer property
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