Shira Frenkel
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398 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Shira Frenkel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She is publicly extremely supportive of him, including leaving her medical practice in recent years to run the foundation that's named after the two of them.
And so you do see a marriage there of really what seems to be two people very much supporting one another.
Call them wife guys here in California.
I don't know if you guys have that term.
Men who publicly support their wives in public.
Well, maybe I think he erected a statue for her on her birthday, I'd want to say.
He hired a famous sculptor to create an entire statue of her, which...
He did.
A little bit different.
I can't, I can't, I try to understand the minds of tech executives and their part that I struggle to.
And this is, this is one of them.
I think that, you know, there were years of crisis in which he bunkered down and was very careful in what he said in public.
And I think that, you know, again, having spoken to people close to him, that was also when he kind of hardened who he was internally.
Um, you know, I think that there you could argue both sides, you could say what, what, you know, you renamed your company after the metaverse.
And this is not really a priority for you anymore, this particular idea of creating an alternative universe where people will engage and live is doesn't seem to be happening.
And so you can fault him for that.
And there are others who say, well, you know, whether or not you think the metaverse specifically was going to work, he did pivot his company.
And now every tech company is pivoting to AI, that seems to be like
A lot of the engineers that were focused on the metaverse have just kind of shifted over into AI.
And so, you know, you could argue both sides.
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