414. Building the Metaverse with RFOX's Ben Fairbank

Ben Fairbank is the CEO and Founder of RFOX, a web3 platform on a mission to empower everyone to play, create and earn in an immersive metaverse without borders.

RFOX is a team of 100 builders creating a metaverse that acts as a platform connecting whitelabel services in one central hub. Businesses and creators can tap into tools for finance, gaming, VR, NFTs, e-commerce and retail and market to a ready-made audience of users.

In this conversation, we unpack:

• Ben’s origin story
• Ben’s definition of the metaverse
• How far away virtual reality mass adoption really is
• Interoperability in the metaverse
• Hiring for web3 projects
• The shifting capital raising landscape
• Taking the time to get things right versus rushing out the door
• Tokenomics and new incentive mechanisms
• How web3 contributors and users become the new sales and marketing team
• How token economies can redefine the media landscape
• What Ben thinks about what critics think might be negative social consequences of spending a lot of time in the metaverse
• Ben’s views on pure decentralization
• And so much more…

With that, enjoy my conversation with Ben Fairbank.

Show Notes:

• RFOX: www.rfox.com
• RFOX Discord: https://discord.io/RFOX+
• Ben on Twitter: www.twitter.com/bennydoda01
• Metavise: www.metavise.io
• Steve on Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski