The Current State of the Metaverse with Stéphane Boukris of Metaverse Studio

In this episode, the yWhales team speak with Stéphane Boukris, an investor of Metaverse Studio and President and Founder of Excelsior. Metaverse Studio aims to be a popularization blog for technologies surrounding the concepts of Metaverse and NFTs published by the immersive agency INTERACTIVE STUDIO created in 2005. In this metaverse conversation, Jay and Stéphane discuss an overall thesis on NFTs, utilization, utility and a roadmap. Stéphane talks about where this asset class should be headed in the future and why he thinks Web3 will give back ownership of digital identity and data.

 

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Stephane Boukris’ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stephaneboukris

The Metaverse Studio Website: metaverse-studio.fr

Facebook: facebook.com/Interactive.studio.paris.hologramme.filtre.insta

Twitter: twitter.com/interactivestud

YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCtBpQ3KPDaxahKX6jd_1SOQ

Instagram: instagram.com/interactivestudio

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/interactivestudio

Discord: discord.com/invite/DMxJmnS78A

Spatial.io: spatial.io/s/Metaverse-HQ-6287b116bf651d0001db7bc5?share=4174714709469090472

Excelsior Website: xsior.com

Twitter: twitter.com/xsioroff

YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC7FMc8Rsu0JCzK_tDb5MQFg

Instagram: instagram.com/xsioroff

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/xsior/

 

About Guests

Stéphane Boukris has over 10 years of entrepreneurship experience and a proven track record of building companies in the digital industry. He has also served as managing director for several subsidiaries of Dalenys (Natixis), and is a recognized expert in viral marketing and innovation. Stéphane co-founded the consulting firm AMETIX, acquired by Docapost. In 2019, Stéphane has launched a new exciting adventure: Excelsior, an IT company.

He is a board member and co-founder of the early-stage fund L'Express Ventures since 2012, and partner at SIDE Capital. He was awarded “Business Person of the Year” by BFM in 2008 and won the FEVAD innovation award in 2010 for the startup "2HeuresAvant" he co-founded.

Stéphane also produced "Robin Des Bois," France's #1 musical in 2013. Stéphane holds a BA from ESSEC, a Master degree from ESCP and studied in California.

 

You’ll learn about:

• What Stéphane is working on to deliver great experiences for European companies on the different metaverses, including The Sandbox
• Why Stéphane believes that the metaverses will be interconnected
• How Web3 will give back ownership of digital identity and data
• The technology that’s needed to meet the ability to scale
• Why Stéphane thinks the metaverse will improve interactions and why there should be a metaverse option in work settings

 

Timestamps

[02:09] Stéphane’s Background

[04:04] Current stage in the evolution of the metaverse 

[05:06] What he is working on today

[06:41] Use cases

[11:05] The vision for metaverse

[13:26] Blockchain and identity ownership

[17:25] More use cases

[18:17] Scaling

[23:59] Technical hurdles of building metaverses

[31:24] The future of work

[36:50] Biggest misconceptions about the metaverse

[38:04] Approaching investing in the metaverse

[40:58] Jobs in the metaverse

[43:51] How to contact Stéphane

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