#68 Metaverse Chat: Jenn Halweil + Marcus Howard - A Few Things - 52 Min

We discussed a number of things including: 1. Marcus and Jenn's entrepreneurial journeys 2. Latest news from the Metaverse + Gaming + NFTs 3. Marcus' new venture, MetArena 4. Jenn's vision for GoBeyond Marcus Howard is a lifelong gamer, serial entrepreneur, featured speaker and international startup advisor. He started his career in the gaming industry in 2013, building ProjectMQ to solve game discovery, the biggest problem in the global gaming industry. In 2019, Marcus pivoted ProjectMQ into MetArena, helping brands of any size use video games to digitally engage their employees and customers. He recently published "Innovate: Gaming & Esports" to teach gamers, parents, teachers, and brands about the business and STEAM career opportunities in the $180B gaming industry: https://bit.ly/PreorderGamingEsportsBook. In 2020, The Game Awards selected Marcus as one of 50 professionals for "Future Class", a worldwide cohort of leaders building a more inclusive future for the gaming industry. Last year, LinkedIn selected him as one of its ecosystem's top 20 voices for sports. He's the host of the "GamiFi Everything: Beyond the Metaverse" podcast, which features conversations with the top innovators in blockchain, NFT, and the metaverse. Marcus invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn. ------ Jenn Halweil is an electrical engineer turned story engineer and founder of #GoBeyond, a media and tech innovation lab pushing the boundaries of what we know to be possible, to inspire a new wave of innovation: one that is sustainable and inclusive. #GoBeyond is a Forbes Next1000 recipient, Luminary fellow to advance equality in entrepreneurship, DeFi Talent fellow to advance inclusion in blockchain, and Women in AI hackathon winner. Most recently, #GoBeyond was nominated for an Emmy for Financially Naked, a series tackling issues around financial equity and inclusion which received more than 1M+ views online.