Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still hopeful about the company’s Metaverse plans, regardless of the billions of dollars he’s sucking out of the company, stating that “someone has to build that.”

Appearing remotely for an interview at the November 30 DealBook Summit in New York, Zuckerberg was asked what he thought about whether the tech giants’ Metaverse game was still viable given its cost and questions about the platform, and replied:

“I think things look very different on a 10-year time horizon than they do in the zone we’re in for the next few years. […] I’m still completely optimistic about all the things we’ve been optimistic about.”

He added that part of “getting through things” in the long term was “getting over” doubts about his ambitions.

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