David Baszucki
Co-founder & CEO, Roblox. On 8 shows, 7 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation. He previously founded Knowledge Revolution, where he created the educational simulation software Interactive Physics.
8shows
7appearances
156statements
39resolved
27supported
4contradicted
69%fully supported
7said about them ↓ Everything David Baszucki said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Baszucki completely disavows Hindenburg Research's allegations of inflated Roblox user metrics
“On this point in particular, you know, on TV, publicly on earnings call, we completely disavow the whole allegation. And the interesting thing is investors can look at the ratio of the time on Roblox to the hours on Roblox to the bookings on On Roblox, that th…”
Baszucki: Exposure to bad content on Roblox is extremely infrequent
“And right now where we're at is it's very, very, very infrequent that anyone on our platform runs into intentionally bad content.”
Baszucki predicts users will eventually create video games entirely via voice
“But getting to the point where you or I make a beautiful thing, share it with our family, play it just by talking about it, I think is going to come true as well.”
Baszucki: Roblox will develop the best AI safety tech across text and voice
“Like I believe we will end up with the best AI tech for text, for voice, maybe for video, doing a wide range of safety things, either monitoring for critical harms, Flagging, adjusting, all of that.”
Baszucki: Money flowing to Roblox creators will increase despite AI concerns
“The thing we've said is we believe that money flowing to creators is going to increase, not decrease”
Baszucki: Roblox ignores university pedigree as top talent bypasses elite schools
“Well, I think people typically think like I went to Stanford. That's where all the top talent is. We have found that not necessarily to be true. And we have found community college, you know, the small Midwestern engineering school, like, because we're assessi…”
Baszucki predicts people will universally use AI to design their own homes
“Imagining those being driven by AI physics and aesthetics, I think, you know, we're all going to be designing our own homes. Absolutely.”
Baszucki claims short-seller Hindenburg Research is no longer in business
“It's interesting that Hindenburg is no longer in business.”
Baszucki predicts AI will generate unique 3D game experiences in real time.
“Okay, I'm making the super Dungeons and Dragons thing, but as it watches you play, and maybe we know your history, you're, you'll be playing a three-D experience that Snow has ever seen before.”
Baszucki: Roblox does not pre-filter every creation through day-long moderation
“We have made the decision not to filter every single Roblox creation through a day of moderation.”
Baszucki: Some Mental Health Conditions Are Driven by Brain Energy Metabolism
“With this keto thing, I think I've developed a theory that in some cases, mental health things are very physical. It's, is your brain getting enough energy?”
Baszucki: Roblox uses AI for user age verification and open-sourced voice filter
“We're now using AI to check the age of every single person on our platform. We've open sourced our voice safety filter.”
Baszucki: VR interfaces will likely evolve from goggles to non-intrusive tech
“I think that's probably more where it's gonna go, probably. Than just goggles and stuff like that.”
Older people will eventually attend church and work on Roblox
“Someday older people are going to go to church on the platform. Older people are going to work together on the platform. Older people are going to do other things.”
Roblox's global infrastructure costs less than one cent per user hourly
“Like all of Roblox runs for less than a penny an hour. For every person around the world.”
AI acceleration will turn Roblox game creation into mass-market consumption
“And I would say the good news is that vision may actually return, because I do think over time with AI acceleration, And all of the things we're working on, just like maybe in the very early days of video or YouTube was mostly consumptive. There was a little b…”
Raw infrastructure performance drives platform growth better than complex features
“The features our creators need are boring and purely performance-based, and we have a saying in the company, like performance is a growth feature, and, you know, we put an enormous amount of work on raw performance features, scale features, those kind of thing…”
Baszucki vows Roblox will never sell its 3D user telemetry data
“We would, of course, never sell that data. Never, ever, ever, ever. For several reasons. One is just from a values thing of respecting the community. Can you imagine, like, what kind of whacked out decision that would be? Yeah. Roblox is selling their three D …”
Roblox aims to capture 10 percent of the entire global gaming market
“We've said publicly, we want to get to 10% of global gaming on the platform.”
Baszucki: Roblox aims to capture 10% of the global gaming market
“The external goal is 10% of global gaming.”
Baszucki: Top 1,000 Roblox developers average $1.3M in earnings
“Our developer creator earned about a billion and a half on the platform, and it goes pretty deep, like top thousand devs are averaging 1.3 million, like real people making a live on living.”
Baszucki: Users will design game worlds by talking rather than 3D tools
“Users are going to be more and more designing in game, designing clothing, designing their own worlds by talking about it, not by using three D tools.”
The other half of the tape: David Baszucki's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 5 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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the Knowledge Project 2
TBPN 2
Sourcery 2
the a16z Podcast 1
2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DAVID SENRALEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 50 | 64% 9/14 | full record on David Senra → |
 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 23 | 50% 3/6 | full record on How I Built This → |
| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 21 | 100% 3/3 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
 NO PRIORSLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 19 | 100% 2/2 | full record on No Priors → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 19 | 67% 4/6 | full record on Sourcery → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 0 | 0 | 80% 4/5 | full record on TBPN → |
| a16zLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 13 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 11 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Big Technology → |