🔮 Building social virtual worlds; Meta drops; CAR-T, crypto in North Korea and infinite bubbles++ #358

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

🎙This week on the podcast

I spoke to Jonathan Wolf, CEO of healthtech startup ZOE, about how his company uses cutting-edge microbiome science and machine learning to give users tailored nutritional advice. Research on the gut microbiome is relatively young, but ZOE’s studies have shown the outsize impact it can have on our health. In this podcast, Jonathan talks me through how he’s blitzscaling science research, and what ZOE might do next.

You can listen to our conversation here or read a full transcript.

The near future

♾️ Mark’s Meta misery
Shares in Meta Platforms fell 26.4% on Thursday after the company said Facebook's daily active user numbers dropped for the first time. The plunge erased more than $230bn from the company's market value, a record single-day drop for any US company. Meta said Apple's iOS privacy …