A women of the metaverse picture at Nasdaq with Cathy Hackl at the center.
A women of the metaverse picture at Nasdaq with Cathy Hackl at the center.
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A metaverse moment for women at Nasdaq’s opening bell

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Moments are coming rapidly for the metaverse these days, but it’s worth stopping for one of those moments that happened on Friday at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York.

I was there to witness metaverse maven Cathy Hackl and the team at Journey ring the opening bell for the exchange in a ceremonial celebration of the metaverse.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.