I've had my fair share of eye-twitching encounters with gamers online, leading me to develop a knee-jerk reaction of swiping left on anyone who dared to mention gaming, Bitcoin or NFTs in their dating profile. However, my recent research for a Web3 gaming startup forced me to confront my prejudices. Was I unjustly rejecting a whole swath of potential partners?

If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably spent numerous hours over the past year fantasizing over possible vacation plans. Perhaps club-hopping in Ibiza like early 2000’s Paris Hilton sounds fun. Binge watching reruns of The Simple Life during a pandemic can do that to you. Maybe you’re the book + beach + booze kind of vacationer? And, since we know that choice paralysis is real, we decided to run a conjoint experiment to learn about the ideal post-pandemic vacation – according to Americans.

Tesla — the most valuable car company in the world — is estimated to be worth more than $700 billion, but produced fewer cars than the next most valuable competitor, Toyota, by a factor of 20. Meanwhile, Toyota’s value is less than one-third that of Tesla’s. We call this supercharged (yes, that was a pun) superhype. Which is also sometimes known as an asset bubble.