Final week at Consensus, Yat Siu almost missed his speak on the Foremost Stage as a result of he was swamped by a throng of adoring followers, determined to steal a minute with the metaverse mogul. Siu’s fellow panelist, Maya Zehavi, and I, his moderator, had been getting mic’d up backstage, watching because the manufacturing crew received extra nervous with every passing minute. When somebody lastly discovered him and relayed again what had occurred, I assumed it was sensible. Good, as a result of not even three years in the past, Web3 and NFTs weren’t a factor. Blockchain gaming wasn’t a factor, and Yat Siu wasn’t getting mobbed by groupies. Early Web3 believers like Yat had been extra doubtless discovered on the fringes of main conferences, internet hosting meetups between themselves.