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# Looking Beneath The Web3 Surface with Timmu Tõke Of Ready Player Me
- URL: https://www.frenchtechjournal.com/web3-timmu-toke-ready-player-me-techchill/
- Published: 2022-04-29T11:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-06T09:28:32.000Z
- Description: Timmu Tõke, CEO at Ready Player Me, joined Chris O'Brien, editor of The French Tech Journal, on stage at TechChill to discuss the future of the virtual economy.
- Author: Chris O'Brien
- Tags: Video

A lot of hype surrounds Web3, a key concept that promises a better method to secure digital ownership of virtual goods. 

Timmu Tõke, CEO of Ready Player Me, has been working on virtual goods via his company, which has developed a cross-game avatar platform for virtual worlds used by more than 6,000 companies.  
  
Tõke says his company is on a mission to break down the virtual walls to build a more open and connected metaverse. The company has attracted $72 million in venture capital from a16z, Plural, Konvoy Ventures, Justin Kan (co-founder of Twitch), Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of Github), Riccardo Zacconi (co-founder of King) and others. 

He joined Chris O'Brien, editor of The French Tech Journal, on stage at TechChill to break down how Web3 and tools like NFTs are building a new virtual economy.