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David Baszucki

13 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 15, 2022 by David Baszucki · across every show →

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Aug 15, 2022
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Baszucki: Built custom Apple II controllers using Radio Shack potentiometers
“I built asteroid type games, and there was a way to in a primitive way, go to Radio Shack and buy these knob potentiometers and wire them up to the Apple II and build a primitive game controller, and I can remember having my siblings come down and play this ch…”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 4:41 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Baszucki: Knowledge Revolution reached 40 employees and $6M revenue before acquisition
“At our peak, we probably had 40 employees, and we were, I think we were doing six million a year when we were acquired.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 18:07 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022
Disclosure
Baszucki: Roblox requires human moderators to review all uploaded images and audio
“And as we went, we were constantly building in, you know, any image that's ever uploaded, any sound that's ever uploaded needs to go by human moderators.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 46:42 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022 positive
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Baszucki: Early Roblox team knew half of their initial 200-300 users
“And in those early days, we probably knew half of the Two or 300 people on Roblox, and we were in there every day chatting with them.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 25:54 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Baszucki: Roblox was designed to make creators famous, not founders
“We very early on Knew that this has to be about the creators on the platform, not us. We want them to be famous, not us. And so I think that, that mirrored more to Eric and my, you know, specialty, which is let's just build great technology.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 30:33 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Baszucki: Early Roblox intentionally avoided Lego's exact form factor
“I think in the early days, we stayed away from the exact Lego form factor. We just said, let's go simple one by two by one, but there was for sure some sensitivity when using, for example, yellow in the avatars, which is this classic Lego look. They were very …”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 28:40 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Baszucki: Roblox reached profitability on about $9 million of invested capital
“Ultimately the total amount of money that went into the company to get to the point of profit was about nine million dollars.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 36:04 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
Baszucki: Roblox has $3B in cash and generates cash
“We have three billion of cash in the bank. We generate cash.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 58:17 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Baszucki: Early Roblox thesis envisioned universal 3D cloud simulation
“Even, even early on, there was a bit of a thesis that if we could mirror and really couple raw things Three D cloud base. We used to call it digital stuff, simulated stuff in the cloud, that this is such a fundamental technology that on top of it, people would…”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 31:26 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022
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Baszucki: Early Roblox puzzle prototype failed virality test within a week
“We were in the midst of the very early phases of what we were doing, which was more of this super scalable physics puzzle system. We had some people play it but we knew within a week, oh my gosh, this is not going to go viral. We have a lot more work to do. An…”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 22:15 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022
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Baszucki: Roblox ignored early critics who dismissed its graphics as too crude
“There were a lot of people we met in those days that is too primitive, too crude, not gonna be fun, games have to be this and that, that we really gently ignored, respectfully.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 27:34 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022
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Baszucki: Knowledge Revolution was profitable throughout its entire existence
“We were profitable the whole time, because we were bootstrapping the company as we went.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 18:20 Roblox: David Baszucki
Aug 15, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Baszucki: By and large, all growth on Roblox has been viral
“We've done experiments along the way with paid acquisition to maybe accelerate here or there, but by and large, everything on Roblox has been viral.”
David Baszucki Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 43:50 Roblox: David Baszucki
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