A metaverse moment for women at Nasdaq’s opening bell
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The moments are coming rapidly for the metaverse these days, but it’s worth stopping for one of those moments that happened on Friday at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York.
I was there to witness metaverse maven Cathy Hackl and the team at Journey ring the opening bell for the exchange in a ceremonial celebration of the metaverse.
Hackl is known as the “godmother of the metaverse” and she sold her consultancy Futures Intelligence Group to Journey, a metaverse agency that helps brands build things for the digital world. Journey teamed up with Manticore Games to create a Nasdaq experience inside the virtual realm of Core. And Nasdaq played the animations from Core while Hackl was talking ahead of the opening bell.
Hackl also gathered a number of people on stage from Journey as well as various women who are part of brands that are targeting the metaverse. It was an interesting moment to watch, and CNBC aired the segment for a couple of minutes, which is pretty rare for such a broadcast of an opening bell.
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“I’m just thrilled to be here. Today, as hundreds or thousands of people start to descend on New York for NFT NYC, I can’t help but feel a creativity Renaissance is upon us and what we build matters more than ever,” said Hackl. “As the cofounder of Journey, I am not the typical face that you see when you think of technology. So that’s why
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