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Virtual Times

Greetings MetaSapiens! What the Meta is your fun and informative videocast partner in figuring out what the metaverse is and can be. Join Jason Chung and Philip Milestone, two metaspace lawyers, wonks and educators, as they grapple with their virtual lives and identities and figure out how to engage with a new plane of existence. Helping them on their journey are a host of friends – top thinkers, personalities and renegades – who explain key concepts of life such as citizenship, property and love in the metaverse.

  1. 04/10/2023

    Creating Value out of Thin (air)? How to Value “Things” in the Metaverse

    Do you remember that cool scene in the Matrix when Morpheus beat Neo in the metaverse dojo and asked “you think that’s air you’re breathing”? Well, I wondered what the value of the property damage to the dojo was. Helping Philip and Jason understand how to value things in the metaverse is Joe Brennan of Houlihan Capital – an expert in valuation in the real world and online. We go through a fake scenario to talk about why things online matter and what value means, like really, man. About Joe Brennan: Joe Brennan is a Vice President in the firm’s Valuation and Financial Advisory Group, where he helps perform valuation work that covers financial reporting, tax, strategic planning, and fairness opinions. Mr. Brennan’s primary focus is on assisting the firm’s crypto asset clients, working closely with fund managers and investment advisers to identify, analyze, and solve unique valuation challenges. Prior to joining Houlihan Capital, Mr. Brennan spent over three years at Cohen & Company, where he specialized in illiquid crypto asset valuation and consulting work for several high-profile hedge fund, venture capital fund, and private equity fund clients that needed assistance while navigating this nascent asset class. Prior to Cohen, Mr. Brennan issued fairness opinions for both buy- and sell-side transactions and annual valuation updates of ESOP-owned companies with annual EBITDA between$500,000 and $120.0 million. Mr. Brennan earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance at Marquette University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

    1h 1m
  2. 01/18/2023

    Issue #9: The Amazing, Spectacular Metaverse: Half Verse / All Meta - Ep. 9

    This episode, Jason reveals a love for Top Gun: Maverick and finds his dream “roll” learning about DnD. Philip explains what a dungeon master is, why collective delusion is really cool, and happily speaks up when Jason asks him to “talk to me, Goose.”. Both talk to Eben Matthews, founder of Macroverse, a Web3 entertainment studio seeking to revolutionize storytelling using new business and creative tools offered in spaces like the metaverse and they all get really excited by the idea of multidirectional and fractionalized content. This, of course, leads to lawyers solving everything, intellectual property as the really real and culminates in zero conclusions reached. Stay tuned! www.virtualtimes.com More about Eben Matthews: Eben Matthews is the Co-Founder and CEO of Macroverse - a web3 studio and platform that is reinventing digital comics and making content that brings creators, collectors, fans and participants at every level together to build the next world-wide entertainment franchises. Eben is a designer, illustrator and content creator with twenty-five years working in advertising, branding, new media, gaming and animation, including work for Nike, Target, Rovio, Activision, Yarn, Shortz, and directing the Creepshow Halloween Special for AMC. The Macroverse founders have been directly responsible for 100M+ game downloads and 20M+ views of produced entertainement content. They have over 75 years of collective experience creating, producing and shipping content across film, television, animation, games, comics and new media. They have the rare personal expertise to craft and build entertainment franchises and the vision to scale a next generation studio using state of the art technologies to empower and reward all involved.

    1h 21m

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Greetings MetaSapiens! What the Meta is your fun and informative videocast partner in figuring out what the metaverse is and can be. Join Jason Chung and Philip Milestone, two metaspace lawyers, wonks and educators, as they grapple with their virtual lives and identities and figure out how to engage with a new plane of existence. Helping them on their journey are a host of friends – top thinkers, personalities and renegades – who explain key concepts of life such as citizenship, property and love in the metaverse.