Fortnite

“Fortnite launched Darth Vader, which people and players could interact with live, in partnership with the estate, in partnership with Disney, so every player, after reaching a certain stage, could have a Darth Vader interact and help you solve the missions.”

“These kids are disengaged. They are addicted to TikTok and Fortnite, and they have mental health problems, and all these issues that are occurring, and they're the outcome of low standards, not high standards.”

“The metaverse was actually just Roblox this whole time. Not Fortnite, not VR.”

“Roblox had a hundred and fifty million daily users in Q three of 2025. Its quarterly engagement is now equal to Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined.”

“Definitely competitive in the long term. In the medium term, like, super good for prototyping and communication, and this is a key flow to, okay, you have an idea, and you don't just wanna You know, generate a basic image of the game that you're trying to buil…”

“I think Roblox and Fortnite will prove that they have real network effects. And it's going to still make sense to create new games within these existing ecosystems.”

“I think you're going to see people start to go even more games first with their launch strategies. I think this thing that happened with Daft Punk this year on Fortnite is actually the harbinger of much more of this going forward. I think you're going to see I…”

“We worked with them on bringing the voice of Darth Vader and Darth Vader into Fortnite, where millions of players could interact with Darth Vader live in the game, where you had like a full experience of Darth Vader in a, in, in, in a new way.”

“We built the largest high school Fortnite league in the country. And then we got acquired by Twitch, and then that was the kind of the big win.”

“And I actually started to realize like, oh, this is the social network. And this is maybe not rocket science or that insightful to anybody listening, but you know, this is the social network where a lot of these memes are moving.”

“The fact that, like, these parental controls are all rife with dark patterns to me is, like, an actual crime, and that you should be able to actually control these things and protect kids from them, but most of them you cannot.”

“Now the suggestion isn't that you can just use AI tools to create Fortnite, but it is to suggest that great game developers leveraging AI will likely be able to create high quality games at a fraction of the cost because AI tools will offer junior employee cal…”

“It's like people download apps to make or save money. Examples of that might be like, you know, WhatsApp where, you know, free texting. And then the other reason is to find a mate. So maybe like Tinder or Snapchat, find love. And the third is to unplug from re…”

“So many of the biggest games in the world today, you think about Fortnite, Call of Duty, League of Legends, They utilize AI primarily for onboarding and practice.”

“I do think, however, that the audience has expanded really in the last 12 to 15 years, and that this next generation of kids who've grown up on Fortnite, who've grown up on harder core games but are still casual in their self-identification, who don't think of…”

“Fortnite earned over two billion dollars for multiple years, right? More than half of their revenue comes from cosmetics.”

“Fortnite, although that seems to have disappeared now, or mostly faded away.”

“I think that the closest things that we currently can see to metaverse-like experiences are games like Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, where you've got a bunch of people running around in a space.”

“I suspect that they're talking to one another about how do we build a bridge from our game or our experience to your game so that a person could go from one to the other. It may take some years to really come together, but I think it will come together.”

“And the other one is that if I'm just done with the game, I could just dump it onto the next person who's really interested in Fortnite and I can recoup some of my investment, which will make more people want to spend in games because it's not just a money pit…”

“Second Life, the text-based worlds of the sixties and seventies, Roblox, Fortnite, they are not designed on subjugation. But self-expression, collaboration, creation.”

“There were over 250,000 simultaneous simulations of that concert, none of which were precisely in synchronization. I mean, some of them probably were, but think of them as being 20, 50, 80 milliseconds separated, a minute separated. And each of those simulatio…”

“I think gaming is this really interesting natural fit for NFTs because people have been buying digital items online For quite some time now and spent, for example, billions of dollars buying virtual clothing and some, a game like Fortnite.”

“The Scott Chavik concert in Fortnite, and he made eight, twenty million out of that, and I think the Fortnite concert was one or two nights, and he was filming himself, watching the concert, watching himself, so it's something very interesting of making that a…”

“You know, we've every reason to think that the future of work will be, you know, more like Fortnite than the kind of office jobs that we have today.”

“I'm especially proud of our team on the top left, the industry's first all-female Fortnite team, and as of September of this year, the first female champion of a fort, of a major Fortnite tournament.”

“What's amazing is that 10.7 million people attended this concert live. The result for him was the single biggest week of album sales in his entire career, and a 24,000 percent increase in his monetized music streams.”

“There's some crazy statistics of Fortnite, like, I think, 70% of their users have spent money in the app.”

“Netflix mentioned Fortnite in a recent earnings call as, you know, being a potential competitor, right?”

“Fortnite, I think, was the first game where people would spectate, and it would actually be a catalyst for them to play.”

“Fortnite made three hundred million dollars last month on dance moves, right?”

“I think Fortnite in its overall structure has a lot of poker tournament in it, in the sense that it's there's a combination of luck and skill. And it's exactly the structure of, like, starting with a hundred people and ending up with one big winner, and it cou…”

“You could build a game like Fortnite in a centralized manner while having its cosmetic assets live on the blockchain.”

“Yeah, but it'll spike and then sort of maybe die off. It's really novel right now to play this on, like against other players on your mobile device.”