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Jul 2023
33m 22s

Meta Has 3 Billion Users. Now What?

The Motley Fool
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Meta has our attention but will we follow Mark Zuckerberg into the metaverse?

(00:21) Asit Sharma and Deidre Woollard discuss: - Meta’s soaring ad impressions amid a tough advertising market. - If Mark Zuckerberg will need to choose between AI and the metaverse. - How Chipotle is using robots to boost efficiency.

(19:45)  Matt Frankel interviews Walker & Dunlop CEO Willy Walker on commercial real estate debt and the challenges facing multifamily housing development.

Companies discussed: META, CMG, SBUX, WD

Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Asit Sharma, Matt Frankel, Willy Walker Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd

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