Remember when Meta was called Facebook, and eerie visions of VR Mark Zuckerberg didn’t haunt your dreams?

In the piece “Activating Potential Founders,” David Cummings puts an open question on how can we activate founders within a region. For the last 8 years, we’ve been struggling with more or less the same question, exploring startup communities, and trying to create repeatable processes and patterns of work that can be justifiably replicated across initiatives. Despite these efforts, we still managed to get a lower number of founders from the sidelines than we would have liked. And it’s pretty obvious why: in Web2, the typical barriers to entry and incumbent risks are considerably high and the same seems too daunting to the average founder.

The metaverse matters. With numbers to boot.

Many roads may lead there, but there’s only one Rome.