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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”
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…”
Roblox never burned through more than its initial $10 million in capital
“If we raised a secondary round, we might put some padding in there, but we actually never dipped below that initial ten million.”
Baszucki: Roblox implemented age verification independently, not due to legal mandates
“Age check. We made the call on our own. It's not because of laws or anything like that”
Roblox creators earn over $1 billion annually through platform payouts
“Devex is well over a billion bucks a year, you know, that's the amount.”
Baszucki: Second Life's contiguous world model created severe scaling limits
“Second Life's architecture was contiguous earth kind of thing, which had some issues around scaling, because in a contiguous earth type situation, which is just the way the real world makes, there's only one copy of that roller coaster, and when 30 people want…”
Baszucki: Roblox shares all discovery boosting signals with platform creators
“One of the things that Roblox Creators like is we share all of the signals of what's boosting something. It's almost as if we were YouTube or TikTok or real saying, here's all the factors that, you know, bring you up here.”
Baszucki: Roblox's first product was a failed single-player puzzle builder
“There was actually an original product and that was an incredible failure. So, and the original product that was the incredible failure was arguably us knowing, we intuitively knew what the viral product would be. We knew the viral product would be online in t…”
Roblox's entire social graph traces back to 1,500 initial Google ad users
“If we were able to, like, reverse engineer the whole social graph tree all the way back to the starting of Roblox, we'd probably see a one month period, you know, times 50 users, times 30, probably see 1500 users that were saw some ad, like an online building …”
Baszucki: Roblox operates 40 data centers and hundreds of thousands of computers
“There is a mini cloud infrastructure company running with 40 data centers and hundreds of thousands of computers.”
Baszucki: Roblox modeled Builders Club after Club Penguin's subscription
“At that time, Club Penguin had a club membership.
Can we just charge people five bucks a month for something?
So we worked on that for a while, and so we had this thing called Builder's Club.”
Baszucki: Roblox has roughly one to two million game creators
“I don't know if we give out our latest Roblox Studio numbers, but it's definitely a lot of people, but it's not ten million. Small percentage. It's one or two million.”
Bruno Mars's Roblox event drew 20 million users across sharded instances
“So in Bruno Mars, we're talking twenty million people but those are sharded amongst copies of experiences.”
Baszucki: Roblox used early AI BERT models for safety for years
“So at Roblox for many, many years, we were pushing very early AI BERT models, primitive type models to drive safety.”
Roblox's 1,000th-ranked creator is growing bookings faster than its top creator
“The growth rate in bookings per year for creator number a thousand ranked by how much they're making, they are growing faster than creator number one.”