Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life since 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has an economy of ~$650M per year (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life since 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has an economy of ~$650M per year  —  Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse.