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In September 2014, Microsoft agreed to purchase Mojang for $2.5 billion, making Persson a billionaire. He then left the company after the deal was finalised in November. Activities after leaving Mojang. Since leaving Mojang, Persson has worked on several small projects.
Mar 3, 2015 · So three months ago Persson pushed it all away, completing the sale of Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in cash. His 71% stake in Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, made him a new,...
Aug 30, 2015 · Markus "Notch" Persson is one of those new billionaires. The 36-year-old founded Mojang, created Minecraft and sold it to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.
- Who Is Markus Persson?
- Early Years
- Minecraft
- Mojang and Superstardom
Markus Persson was writing computer code by the time he was 8. Although he never finished high school, Persson landed a programming job when he was 18. It wasn't long before he was creating his own games on the side, and his first release, Minecraft, would be a massive international success. Persson eventually sold his software company, Mojang, and...
Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 1, 1979. He grew up in the small town of Edsbyn, surrounded by forests that would influence his biggest game creation, Minecraft, decades later. Growing up, he was an obsessive Lego builder, until he was 7 and his father brought home a Commodore 128 computer. Persson latched right on, and...
It wasn’t long before Persson and Porsér were writing their own games, but their Midasplayer bosses didn’t like the attention these games were garnering the duo. So in 2009, Persson left Midasplayer for jAlbum and began spending all his free time creating. Persson would write his first big game, Minecraft, in just a week, and it was rushed so he co...
Minecraft moved about 20,000 downloads in its first year, but by the end of the next year it was often getting that many downloads per day. With the added sales came a huge and ever-growing community of players, and Minecraft became as much a community as a game. Without a doubt, Persson was the witty, often cantankerous mayor of that community, an...
Jan 18, 2022 · To acquire Minecraft and Mojang, Microsoft paid $2.5 billion. Included in this transaction were, of course, all of the rights to the Minecraft IP and the development studio that works on it,...
3 days ago · Markus "Notch" Persson made his fortune selling the rights to his game Minecraft to Microsoft. In September 2014, after selling 15 million copies of Minecraft across gaming consoles, Persson...
Sep 15, 2014 · On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a much anticipated agreement to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company Mr. Persson helped found, for $2.5 billion. Microsoft gets the hit game Minecraft...
