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Stephanie Lee, founder and CEO of Selfmade

“We get to change the definition of 'what is beautiful' to 'feeling beautiful.' Beauty as an emotion is a really cool thing to see come alive for people.”
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Flexivores

Consumers are reconsidering their culinary habits, saving meat and extravagant cuisines for travel and special occasions.
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Krista Kim and Peter Martin, co-creators of the 0RB System

"We used to be passive consumers, but now we have become conscious co-creators."
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David Rodolitz, Founder and CEO of VCR Group and Flyfish Club

"We're not Web3 guys trying to figure out hospitality; we're hospitality guys that have leveraged a Web3 component."
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George Yashin, co-founder and CEO of ZERO10

“People often use clothes as a means of personal expression, and for that, ‘clothing’ doesn’t need to be material.”
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DoorLabs co-founder and current advisor Kunho Kim and digital creator Yiran Shu

“How can we use this new immersive technology in the metaverse to better help and better equip people with different needs in the future?”
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Gary Liu, founder and CEO of Artifact Labs

“NFTs allow digital media to have intrinsic value.”
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Niche co-founders Christopher Gulczynski, CEO, and Zaven Nahapetyan, CTO

“Decentralization is the path forward.”
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Tania Chambers, co-producer of "How to Please a Woman"

“You can’t be what you can’t see.”
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Dr. Alex Box, identity designer and beauty futurist

"I see identity design as the next important step to how we communicate and interpret multiple selves in the metaverse."
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Liam Young, speculative architect and director

"Science fiction is not about prediction. Science fiction is about promoting action."
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Michael Bouhanna & Max Moore, co-heads of digital art, Sotheby’s

“I think we will see a mass adoption of the NFT this year.”
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Ryan Mullins, founder and CEO, Aglet

"The biggest opportunity for physical goods is virtual goods."
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Krista Kim, contemporary digital artist, founder of the Techism movement

“The metaverse realized is the imagination realized.”
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Neha Singh, founder and CEO, Obsess

"Our goal is to be to be the technology that powers shopping in the metaverse."
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Kerry Murphy, founder and CEO, The Fabricant

"People are going to see more value in digital assets than in physical assets."
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