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  1. Jun 27, 2023 · Jun 27, 2023, 7:01 AM PDT. Roblox, the virtual world and game platform, has 66 million daily users who spent 14 billion collective hours on it in just Q1 of 2023. If you have kids, you’ve ...

  2. Feb 24, 2021 · T o millions of tweens, David Baszucki is much better known as his avatar, “Builderman.”. What he built is Roblox, an addictive combo video game/social-media site that rivals YouTube and ...

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  3. Oct 12, 2023 · CEO David Baszucki’s mission to make Roblox a billion-player platform. AI is relatively easy, Baszucki said at Code. Working in China? That’s harder. By Nilay Patel and Alex Heath. Oct 12 ...

  4. Jul 11, 2023 · The CEO’s Married Life, Wife and Kids. The 60-year-old engineer, David Baszucki, is married to Jan Ellison Baszucki, who is an award-winning author. The couple first met while studying at Stanford University but didn’t date until years later. As of 2023, they have been married for nearly 30 years.

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    This has become one of my favorite stories to tell. Many investors will tell you about when they “just knew” a startup was going to make it big, the moment that solidified their conviction to cut the check. In the case of First Round and Roblox, that wasn’t how things played out. We were originally introduced to Dave in late 2007 by Rick Lewis, a f...

    As an investor, I’ve been fortunate enough to partner with a wide range of companies, from Ring and Hotel Tonight, to Warby Parker and Flurry. Through the repeated process of raising a fund and deploying capital to back founders as they bet big on unique ideas in different markets, you start to see patterns emerge across each “vintage.” Looking bac...

    Now, we’re a decade on from that “envelopes on the wall” moment. So much has changed about our world in the last 10 years — particularly in this past one. Roblox faced real uphill challenges all along the way, such as expanding into iPad/mobile, going international, “aging up” their audience, dealing with new competitors, and creating a new categor...

  5. Dec 1, 2021 · A rabble of Roblox avatars bopped around at his feet. According to the company, the shows attracted more than 30 million views. “This felt like a new, different thing,” Baszucki says. Analysts ...

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  7. David Baszucki. David Baszucki is the Founder and CEO of Roblox. His vision is to build a global platform that brings people together through play. Under his leadership, Roblox has established itself as one of the fastest-growing, privately-held technology companies in the world, now surpassing a billion hours of user engagement each month.