Bob Iger or Robert A. Iger was The Walt Disney CEO from 2005 to 2020.
Along the process of his career, he success to bring Disney forwards in business.
Now, he is start to entering metaverse in order to expand his business career.
He starts investing in metaverse and join an avatar company.
He decided to join Genies, an American avatar technology company that allow users to create fully personalize their own avatars.
Then the avatars use in some apps, such as Giphy, iMessage, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and some other apps
Genies is take an opportunity between metaverse and web3.
As the technology company, Genies tries to positioning their company as the future of online identity.
Either as the future in virtual world or in the blockchain and even both.
The company hopes that every avatars that created by the users, once can be use in every apps in the futures.
As cited from hollywoodreporter.com Iger convey his interest through technology and art.
He loves anything that related to the combination between technology and art, then he sees that Genies is one of company that fit to his interest.
He said that “Genies provides unique and compelling opportunities to harness the power of that combination to enable new forms of creativity, expression and communication.”
Moreover, Iger give a statement. “After spending the last few months getting to know Akash and learning more about Genies, I am very excited about his vision and how it will be fulfilled and I look forward to working with the entire team.”
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