A metaverse moment for women
Moments are coming rapidly for the metaverse these days, but it’s worth stopping for one of those moments that happened on Friday at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York. I was there to witness metaverse maven Cathy Hackl and the team at Journey ring the opening bell for the exchange in a ceremonial celebration of the metaverse.
Hackl is known as the “godmother of the metaverse”
Hackl is known as the “godmother of the metaverse,” and she sold her consultancy Futures Intelligence Group to Journey, a metaverse agency that helps brands build things for the digital world. Journey teamed up with Manticore Games to create a Nasdaq experience inside the virtual realm of Core. And Nasdaq played the animations from Core while Hackl was talking ahead of the opening bell.

Futurescape in simple terms
Hackl is known as the “godmother of the metaverse,” and she sold her consultancy Futures Intelligence Group to Journey, a metaverse agency that helps brands build things for the digital world. Journey teamed up with Manticore Games to create a Nasdaq experience inside the virtual realm of Core. And Nasdaq played the animations from Core while Hackl was talking ahead of the opening bell.
Everybody has a brand
Hackl is known as the “godmother of the metaverse,” and she sold her consultancy Futures Intelligence Group to Journey, a metaverse agency that helps brands build things for the digital world. Journey teamed up with Manticore Games to create a Nasdaq experience inside the virtual realm of Core. And Nasdaq played the animations from Core while Hackl was talking ahead of the opening bell.


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Zimmerman was on hand for the moment, as was Jordan Edelstein, head of business development at Manticore Games. The group did some very loud cheering as the countdown to the bell ringing went down to zero. Everyone got a chance to take pictures on stage, including the group of women that Hackl had assembled for the moment. Hackl signed the document saying she had in fact rung the opening bell or something like that. Then they went outside to see their faces on the big screen in Times Square.
