# Ex-Disney CEO Bob Iger’s next step: Investing in a metaverse start-up run by a 29-year-old

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/ex-disney-ceo-bob-igers-next-step-investing-in-a-metaverse-start-up-run-by-a-29-year-old/
- Published: 2022-03-16T09:15:34-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Robert Iger, Chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company speaks in Laguna Beach, California, October 22, 2019. Photo credit: Mike Blake | Reuters. Article by Tom Huddleston Jr. CNBC – March 14, 2022. Former Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger is putting his name and money behind a new company that’s aiming to dominate the future of the internet and the metaverse. On Monday, 3D avatar start-up Genies announced that Iger is joining its board of directors and investing an undisclosed sum in the Los Angeles-based company. Founded in 2017, Genies’ mobile app allows users to create their own custom digital avatars – three-dimensional cartoon versions of themselves – for their social media profiles and, eventually, to travel the metaverse. […] Click here to view original web page at www.cnbc.com