#550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats

Pivoted towards gaming and a creator-supported model rather than a viewership model

All day, every day he would live to stream his life

Roblox is a great example of experimentation with AR/VR, the technological risks are super low when the main objective is to have fun

Understand what people actually use your product for – define your high-value users

The principles of marketing durably persist over time, they just use different mediums and technologies

What are the right metrics to use?

The future is at the intersection of economic and game design

“[Twitch] solves the original sin of the internet, which is having an advertising-based system…We decided to go with banner ads over paying each other online” – Andrew Chen

Incentives to create content change when there are clear economic opportunities