{"id":4172,"date":"2022-06-29T03:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T03:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:31:12","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-the-metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/mark-zuckerberg-the-metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg: &#8220;The Metaverse will be a pretty big part of our business&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meta, formerly Facebook CEO <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/mark-zuckerberg-announces-the-date-to-reach-1-billion-metaverse-users\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4153\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, said that the metaverse is the future of their company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook changed its name to &#8220;Meta&#8221; last October, restructuring the company with a vision to &#8220;create a &#8216;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/questions-you-wonder-about-metaverse\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4156\">metaverse<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&#8216; that connects online social experiences and the physical world . &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg, who\u00a0was a guest on CNBC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Mad Money<\/em>\u00a0program on June 23,\u00a0suggested that a huge economy will form around the metaverse and create great opportunities for content producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Metaverse-will-be-a-pretty-big-part-of-our-business.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stating that he is excited for a world where \u201cmillions of people can do creative work that will make them happy as a profession\u201d, Zuckerberg said that the metaverse is a great business opportunity for them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentioning that Metaverse will be a big pillar of their business, especially over the next few years, the CEO continued as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote quote-solid is-layout-flow wp-block-quote quote-solid-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe hope to introduce billions of people to the metaverse by the end of this decade. Users who will trade hundreds of dollars will buy different things such as digital goods, digital content, avatar outfits to express themselves, digital products for their virtual home or those used to design the conference room.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Zuckerberg admitted that it will take time to introduce billions of people to the metaverse. Saying that their business model is based on first growing the business and then making money, the CEO added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote quote-solid is-layout-flow wp-block-quote quote-solid-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cOur playbook says to create service first, try to serve as many people as possible (\u2026), and then move on to monetization.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, formerly Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said that the metaverse is the future of their company. Facebook changed its name to &#8220;Meta&#8221; last October, restructuring the company with a vision to &#8220;create a &#8216;metaverse&#8216; that connects online social experiences and the physical world . &#8220; Mark Zuckerberg, who\u00a0was a guest on CNBC&#8217;s\u00a0Mad Money\u00a0program on June &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[160,318],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaverse1","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-metaverse-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}