Minecraft

“If you give enough people a double-blind test of an AI, our AI specifically, controlling a Minecraft bot, and if over some, say, arbitrary threshold, 50, 60%, Actually get it wrong and think an AI is a human, you've passed a behavior turing test to some degree…”

“People always say, oh, when's the first billion dollar single person company? That was Minecraft.”

“You've got Roblox, you've got Minecraft, they're awesome tools, you've got tremendous communities there of creators, but there is a ceiling on how good the rendering can be in those platforms, which I know, and it's also, you have to be a certain level of crea…”

“I'm actually personally pretty pro screens, and pro Minecraft and Roblox, and, you know, giving children, like, this sort of playground where they can exercise their own agency.”

“In order to complete Factorio, you know, complete and launch a rocket, you need to mine maybe about a million raw resources to get to that point. Whereas the same kind of point in Minecraft, you have to just get maybe 200 resources. So, you know, we have order…”

“Because by the time I was 16, it had reached millions of players, was generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit, then led me to drop out of high school halfway through 10th grade.”

“It's really like a game that's Fully built in a generative AI model. And so they built a game like Minecraft and you could just describe a world and it makes you a Minecraft world like that. And like every step you take is like not a pre-programmed pixel. It's…”

“So I've looked at M&A as, at the meta level, it needs to do two things. One is it needs to be something that we can clearly quote, unquote, say it fits our mission. It fits our identity. Oh, we can be a better owner, which is sort of a very narrow way to talk …”

“This bot basically is built entirely on, on, on black box GPT-IV. So they have not built their own model or perception or planning or anything, you know, any sort of traditional engine you would build to build a bot like this. Instead, they work entirely at th…”

“Minecraft, for example, where they're, they just crossed the one trillion view mark on YouTube, right, of Minecraft-related videos. You know what? The company that made that Mojang didn't make any of those videos. They were a hundred percent made by the commun…”

“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.”

“Most of the big players in the game industry are being avoidant of crypto and blockchain and there's different reasons for that you know having to do with you know, they may perceive a risk to their brand Or they may see that just the, there could be a lot of …”

“I remember him saying, we're going to be bigger than Minecraft someday, and at that time, that was like the most laughable statement in the world, but Dave was convinced, and I just remember I'd check in with him, and he'd chip away at it, and eventually it be…”

“E-sports and sort of this tournament play and, you know, the competitive aspect, that's one version of this. Being able to create a streamable thing, which then, you know, has a community around you know, your whole product, that's another version of this. And…”

“I don't think a AAA studio would have created Minecraft, for example, you know, and I don't think that followed any sort of rules that existed before it, you know, but I think when people have the ability to kind of make these smaller, personal, more risky pro…”

“Minecraft, Roblox, these are virtual worlds that sort of bake both a social network and a content platform all into one.”

“I think games that have like emergent behavior, so like something like Minecraft where it's almost like the random chaos of things happening creates this narrative that's almost like fun to watch creates like a longer term sales cycle for a game. So it's a les…”

“I owned the sales rights to chain stores. And so I was the person like if a chain store, like hot topic wanted to purchase Minecraft or walking dead or world of Warcraft or any of those games, I was the exclusive rights holder to sell it to them.”