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Ball: Build Compelling Social Products First, Not Consumer Computing Platforms
“We have this ongoing lesson that trying to build the next big platform in computing, especially on the consumer side, less so on the enterprise side, you shouldn't seek to do it.
And by that, I mean, there's this classic example of we've always known that a qu…”
Ball: Virtual world developers should pioneer 3D tools, not reinvent governance
“The enormity of what we want to build requires extraordinary trust in the system, extraordinary investment, and we actually have these frameworks we need not reinvent. We can iterate on, but even there, we should pioneer on the three D tools, not the societal …”
Ball: Network effects economically justify accessibility hardware without direct product ROI
“And if you believe in network effects, one of the most potent discoveries of the digital era, you believe actually we may not have a direct business case for producing and distributing this device relative to what they can pay us and what we can charge for it.…”
Ball Defines Metaverse as Massively Scaled, Synchronous 3D Virtual Network
“I mean this because I'm going to describe the metaverse, not define it. And that is a massively scaled and interoperable network of three D rendered real time virtual worlds, which can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited n…”
Ball: Best Technical Founders Are Frustrated Corporate Veterans
“My favorite entrepreneur are those who have spent a decade trying to solve these problems with a lot of backing, but a company that was never going to see it through because they come away with it.
Firstly, having basically financed one of the world's rarest e…”